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14-letter words containing d, o, n, u, t

  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • 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.
  • disillusionist — to disillusion.
  • disjoint union — In domain theory, a union (or sum) which results in a domain without a least element.
  • dispiteousness — the state of being without pity
  • disquisitional — Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
  • dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
  • dissolutionism — the beliefs and practices of dissolutionists
  • dissolutionist — a person whose aim is dissolution
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • 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 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
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • 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 coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • double entente — a double meaning; ambiguity.
  • double-jointed — (of particular people or animals) having unusually flexible joints that can bend in unusual ways or to abnormally great extent.
  • double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
  • down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • dracula, count — (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
  • drummond light — calcium light.
  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
  • 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.
  • dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
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