14-letter words containing d, i, s, n
- disapplication — a provision for exempting schools or individuals from the requirements of the National Curriculum in special circumstances
- disappointedly — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
- disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
- disapprobation — disapproval; condemnation.
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
- disassociating — to dissociate.
- disassociation — to dissociate.
- disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
- disbelievingly — In a disbelieving manner; in a manner that is difficult to believe.
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
- disciplinarian — a person who enforces or advocates discipline: The teacher was a formidable disciplinarian.
- disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
- disciplinarily — In a disciplinary way.
- disciplinarity — The quality of being an academic discipline.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- discolorations — Plural form of discoloration.
- discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
- disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disconnectedly — In a disconnected manner.
- disconnections — Plural form of disconnection.
- disconsolately — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- disconsolation — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discontentedly — not content or satisfied; dissatisfied; restlessly unhappy: For all their wealth, or perhaps because of it, they were discontented.
- discontentment — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
- discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
- discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- discretionally — At one's discretion.
- discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
- 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.
- discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- 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.