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14-letter words containing d, i, e, r

  • drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • draw a picture — represent sth visually
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
  • dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • dress designer — a person who designs clothes
  • dressing glass — a small, adjustable mirror designed to stand on a dressing table.
  • dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
  • driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
  • drill sergeant — military officer who drills recruits
  • drinking water — water that is safe to drink
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
  • driving lesson — a session involving driving practice and theory with a driving instructor
  • droit de suite — a right recognized by the legislation of several member countries of the European Union whereby an artist, or his or her heirs, is entitled to a share of the price of a work of art if it is resold during the artist's lifetime or for 70 years after his or her death
  • droit des gens — law of nations; international law.
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • drop-in centre — (in Britain) a daycentre run by the social services or a charity that clients may attend on an informal basis
  • dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • dunning letter — a letter pressing someone for payment
  • duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
  • dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
  • e-mail address — electronic mail address
  • earless lizard — any of several slender iguanid lizards of the genus Holbrookia, of the western U.S. and Mexico, that have no external ear opening.
  • eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
  • editorializing — Present participle of editorialize.
  • edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
  • electric field — a field of force surrounding a charged particle within which another charged particle experiences a force
  • electrodeposit — To deposit by means of electrodeposition.
  • electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
  • electrogilding — electroplating using gold
  • electropainted — Painted electrophoretically.
  • elevated train — a train that runs on an elevated railway
  • empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
  • endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
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