14-letter words containing d, r, a
- decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
- deep-fat fryer — a device for cooking food by submerging it in hot fat
- deep-sea diver — a person who takes part in deep-sea diving
- defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- deferred share — a share of stock on which a dividend is not paid until some fixed date or until some conditional event.
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- degenerateness — The state or quality of being degenerate.
- dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- delaine merino — one of an American strain of Merino sheep.
- deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
- deliverability — capable of delivery.
- delphic oracle — the oracle of Apollo at Delphi that gave answers held by the ancient Greeks to be of great authority but also noted for their ambiguity
- delta aquarids — either of two collections of meteors comprising meteor showers having their apparent origin in the constellation Aquarius and visible either in early May (Eta Aquarids) or late July (Delta Aquarids)
- delta particle — a very short-lived hyperon
- dematerialised — Simple past tense and past participle of dematerialise.
- dematerialized — Simple past tense and past participle of dematerialize.
- dematerializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dematerialize.
- demerara sugar — Demerara sugar is a type of brown sugar. It is made from sugar cane that is grown in the West Indies.
- demerara-river — a river in E Guyana flowing S to N and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Georgetown. 215 miles (346 km) long.
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- demilitarizing — Present participle of demilitarize.
- demineralizing — Present participle of demineralize.
- demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
- democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- demonstrations — Plural form of demonstration.
- demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
- demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
- demoralization — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralizingly — in a demoralizing manner
- denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
- denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
- dental records — records produced during a dental examination and recording the state of a patient's teeth
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- deparochialize — to make parochial.
- departmentally — In a departmental manner; affecting departments.
- departure date — Your departure date is the date that you are expected to leave a hotel or other location.
- departure gate — (in a large airport) any of the numbered exits leading to the airfield or aircraft
- departure time — the time of departure of a train, bus, aircraft, etc