14-letter words containing d, o, n, e, s, t
- domestications — Plural form of domestication.
- donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
- double density — floppy disk
- down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
- dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- droit des gens — law of nations; international law.
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- dust explosion — an explosion caused by the ignition of an inflammable dust, such as flour or sawdust, in the air
- dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- encyclopedists — Plural form of encyclopedist.
- endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
- endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
- endopeptidases — Plural form of endopeptidase.
- endophenotypes — Plural form of endophenotype.
- exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
- extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
- extension lead — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- fellow student — sb studying at same institution
- first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
- focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- forest of dean — a royal forest in Gloucestershire, in W England. About 180 sq. mi. (475 sq. km).
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
- golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
- great-grandson — a grandson of one's son or daughter.
- groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
- heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.