14-letter words containing d, i, s, c, u, e
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
- discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
- discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
- district judge — any judge of a federal district court.
- district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
- diverticulitis — inflammation of one or more diverticula, characterized by abdominal pain, fever, and changes in bowel movements.
- diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
- dna sequencing — the procedure of determining the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
- fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- indecorousness — The quality of being indecorous.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
- intussuscepted — Received into some other thing or part, like a sword into a sheath.
- isla de pascua — Spanish name of Easter Island.
- issued capital — the shares of a company that have been sold or distributed
- justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- mendaciousness — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
- muscle spindle — Cell Biology. a proprioceptor in skeletal muscle, composed of striated muscle fibers and sensory nerve endings in a connective tissue sheath, that conveys information via the spinal nerves on the state of muscle stretch, important in the reflex mechanism that maintains body posture.
- music director — The music director of an orchestra or other group of musicians is the person who decides what they will play and where, and usually conducts them as well.
- musical comedy — musical (def 5).
- non-customized — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- non-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- non-nucleoside — any of various antiviral drugs that bind directly to reverse transcriptase and prevent RNA conversion to DNA, used in combination with other drugs to treat HIV infection.
- nondestructive — Not involving damage or destruction, especially of an object or material that is being tested.
- nulli secundus — second to none
- outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
- oversubscribed — If something such as an event or a service is oversubscribed, too many people apply to attend the event or use the service.
- oxidoreductase — any of a class of enzymes that act as a catalyst, some of them conjointly, causing the oxidation and reduction of compounds.