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14-letter words containing d, y, n, e, r

  • decoration-day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
  • dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
  • dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
  • dehydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenize.
  • dehydroretinol — (organic compound) A derivative of retinol having an extra double bond; vitamin A2.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • demoralizingly — in a demoralizing manner
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • departmentally — In a departmental manner; affecting departments.
  • depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
  • derivationally — In a derivational manner.
  • desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
  • detrimentality — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
  • diathermaneity — the quality of being diathermanous
  • diethylpropion — a sympathomimetic substance, C 13 H 19 NO⋅HCl, used as an appetite suppressor and a short-term adjunct in the management of certain kinds of obesity.
  • differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
  • dihydrocodeine — a synthetic drug similar to codeine, used as an analgesic, an antidiarrhoeal, and to relieve coughing, or used recreationally
  • dimenhydrinate — a synthetic, crystalline, antihistamine powder, C 17 H 22 NO⋅C 7 H 6 ClN 4 O 2 , used in the treatment of allergic disorders and as a preventive for seasickness and airsickness.
  • dinner trolley — a small table on casters used for conveying food, drink, etc
  • directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
  • discernability — The state of being discernable.
  • discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
  • disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • discriminately — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
  • disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
  • 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.
  • donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
  • drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
  • dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
  • each and every — all
  • edward yourdon — (person)   A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
  • electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
  • emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
  • emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
  • endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • feeding frenzy — Slang. a ruthless attack on or exploitation of someone especially by the media.
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