14-letter words containing d, u, s, t, i, n
- 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.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
- disgustingness — causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- disillusionist — to disillusion.
- disinvestiture — the act or state of being disinvested
- 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.
- disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
- dissolutionism — the beliefs and practices of dissolutionists
- dissolutionist — a person whose aim is dissolution
- distinguishing — distinctive; characteristic, as a definitive feature of an individual or group: Intricate rhyming is a distinguishing feature of her poetry.
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
- 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
- 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
- dunkirk spirit — fortitude and stoicism in a demanding or dangerous situation
- 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.
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- 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.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
- futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
- gender studies — subject: male and female roles
- gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
- hauts-de-seine — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.