14-letter words containing d, i, s, m
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- destigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- determinations — Plural form of determination.
- determinatives — Plural form of determinative.
- determinedness — The state or quality of being determined.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamond-shaped — rhombic
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
- diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
- dies committee — an early, informal name for the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
- dimensionality — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- diminutiveness — The state or quality of being diminutive.
- dio chrysostom — 2nd century ad, Greek orator and philosopher
- diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
- disaccommodate — to inconvenience (a person)
- disaffirmation — The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
- disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
- disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
- disassemblable — That can be disassembled.
- disaster movie — a film in which a disastrous event such as an earthquake, fire, air crash etc is the focus of the action
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- discontentment — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discriminately — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- discriminating — to make or constitute a distinction in or between; differentiate: a mark that discriminates the original from the copy.
- discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
- discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- discriminators — Plural form of discriminator.
- discriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembarrassed — Simple past tense and past participle of disembarrass.
- disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disengagements — Plural form of disengagement.
- disentrainment — the act of discharging troops from a train
- disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.