14-letter words containing e, d
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decimalization — Alternative spelling of decimalisation.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- decivilization — those people or nations that have reached such a state.
- declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
- decollectivize — to organize (a people, industry, economy, etc.) according to the principles of collectivism.
- decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
- decolonization — Decolonization means giving political independence to a country that was previously a colony.
- decolorization — decolor.
- decommissioned — to remove or retire (a ship, airplane, etc.) from active service.
- decommissioner — a person who decommissions a ship, nuclear reactor, etc
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- deconcentrated — to reduce the power or control of (a corporation, industry, etc.); decentralize.
- deconditioning — Present participle of decondition.
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- decontaminated — Simple past tense and past participle of decontaminate.
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
- decorated shed — a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.
- decoration day — Memorial Day
- 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.
- decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- decriminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decriminalize.
- decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
- dedicated line — (communications) A telephone line leased expressly for the purpose of connecting two users more-or-less permenantly.. Such lines may be "voice grade" which provides the bandwidth and signal to noise ratio of ordinary public switched telephone network circuits, or specified in ways which allow transport of suitably encoded digital signals at faster rates. In some cases, lines may be physical wires between the communicating parties. Over longer distances, it is common for the connection to be virtual, which means that although the two users can communicate only with each other, their signals and others are multiplexed, amplified, switched, scrambled, demultiplexed and so on in complex ways between the end points. This contrasts with a dial-up connection which is only opened when one end requires it.
- deep hack mode — hack mode
- deep structure — a representation of a sentence at a level where logical or grammatical relations are made explicit, before transformational rules have been applied
- deep-fat fryer — a device for cooking food by submerging it in hot fat
- deep-pan pizza — a pizza with a thicker base than standard
- deep-sea diver — a person who takes part in deep-sea diving
- deer fly fever — tularemia.
- default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
- defect density — (programming) The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
- 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.
- defeminization — (in a developing organism) the process in which full development into a female of the species is prevented because of a male developmental characteristic
- defence forces — the armed services of a country
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.