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14-letter words containing d, o, e

  • 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.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • 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.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • 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.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disillusionise — Alternative spelling of disillusionize.
  • disillusionize — to disillusion.
  • disimpassioned — calm; dispassionate.
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
  • disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
  • disintegration — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • disintegrators — Plural form of disintegrator.
  • disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
  • disinvolvement — the action or process of withdrawing from an obligation or commitment, especially from a political or military involvement: The secretary of state promised disinvolvement from the alliance.
  • disjointedness — having the joints or connections separated: a disjointed fowl.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • disorderedness — The quality of being disordered.
  • disorderliness — The state or quality of being disorderly.
  • disorientating — to disorient.
  • disorientation — to disorient.
  • dispensational — Of or pertaining to dispensation.
  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • dispersal zone — a defined area in which any police or community support officer can force any group of two or more people to disperse for 24 hours
  • dispiteousness — the state of being without pity
  • disposableness — Disposability.
  • 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.
  • dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
  • 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.
  • dividend cover — the number of times that a company's dividends to shareholders could be paid out of its annual profits after tax, used as an indication of the probability that dividends will be maintained in subsequent years
  • dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
  • dnepropetrovsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
  • do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • do one's block — to become angry
  • do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
  • do one's stuff — If you do your stuff, you perform an activity in the way that people expect.
  • do one's thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
  • do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
  • do the needful — to perform a necessary task
  • do violence to — to inflict harm upon; damage or violate
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