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14-letter words containing e, n, c, o, d

  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
  • detention camp — a compound where prisoners are detained temporarily, as pending determination of their legal status under immigration laws.
  • detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
  • device control — (character)   One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
  • diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
  • dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • dihydrocodeine — a synthetic drug similar to codeine, used as an analgesic, an antidiarrhoeal, and to relieve coughing, or used recreationally
  • directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
  • disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disconnectedly — In a disconnected manner.
  • disconnections — Plural form of disconnection.
  • disconsolately — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
  • discontentedly — not content or satisfied; dissatisfied; restlessly unhappy: For all their wealth, or perhaps because of it, they were discontented.
  • discontentment — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
  • 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.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • dividend cover — the number of times that a company's dividends to shareholders could be paid out of its annual profits after tax, used as an indication of the probability that dividends will be maintained in subsequent years
  • do one's block — to become angry
  • do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
  • do violence to — to inflict harm upon; damage or violate
  • docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
  • domestications — Plural form of domestication.
  • dongle cracker — (security)   Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
  • 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 spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • down the hatch — drinks toast
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • drop a clanger — If you say that you have dropped a clanger, you mean that you have done or said something stupid or embarrassing.
  • drop-in centre — (in Britain) a daycentre run by the social services or a charity that clients may attend on an informal basis
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
  • dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
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