14-letter words containing e, n, r
- disintegration — the act or process of disintegrating.
- disintegrative — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disintegrators — Plural form of disintegrator.
- disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
- disinteresting — absence of interest; indifference.
- disinvestiture — the act or state of being disinvested
- disorderedness — The quality of being disordered.
- disorderliness — The state or quality of being disorderly.
- disorientating — to disorient.
- disorientation — to disorient.
- dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
- dispersal zone — a defined area in which any police or community support officer can force any group of two or more people to disperse for 24 hours
- dispiritedness — The state or condition of being dispirited.
- disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
- distractedness — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- distressedness — The state or quality of being distressed; anxiety.
- district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
- diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
- diverging lens — a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.
- divertissement — a diversion or entertainment.
- 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
- divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
- divine service — service1 (def 15).
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- dnepropetrovsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
- do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
- do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
- do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
- 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.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
- domain address — (networking) The name of a host on the Internet belonging to the hierarchy of Internet domains.
- 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.
- dongle cracker — (security) Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
- donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
- door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
- down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
- downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- dragging piece — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.