14-letter words containing d, i, e, t, r
- decoration-day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
- decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
- defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- dehydroretinol — (organic compound) A derivative of retinol having an extra double bond; vitamin A2.
- deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
- deliverability — capable of delivery.
- delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
- delta aquarids — either of two collections of meteors comprising meteor showers having their apparent origin in the constellation Aquarius and visible either in early May (Eta Aquarids) or late July (Delta Aquarids)
- delta particle — a very short-lived hyperon
- dematerialised — Simple past tense and past participle of dematerialise.
- dematerialized — Simple past tense and past participle of dematerialize.
- dematerializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dematerialize.
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- demilitarizing — Present participle of demilitarize.
- democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- demonstrations — Plural form of demonstration.
- demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
- demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
- demoralization — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demythologizer — a person who removes mythical elements from something
- dendritic cell — a branching cell of the lymph nodes, blood, and spleen that functions as a network trapping foreign protein.
- denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
- denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
- dennis ritchie — (person) Dennis M. Ritchie, co-author of the Unix operating system, inventor of the C programming language and demigod. See also K&R, Core War, If you want X, you know where to find it.
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- departure time — the time of departure of a train, bus, aircraft, etc
- depolarisation — Alternative spelling of depolarization.
- depolarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
- depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
- deregistration — The process of which an employee is removed from work registrant status.
- derivationally — In a derivational manner.
- derivativeness — the quality of being derivative
- derivatization — the process of making a chemical compound into a derivative
- derivitization — (organic chemistry) The formation of a chemical derivative.
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- dermatological — the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases.
- dermatologists — Plural form of dermatologist.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.