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14-letter words containing e, r, i, o, s

  • discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • disintegration — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • disintegrators — Plural form of disintegrator.
  • disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
  • 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
  • dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
  • dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • domain address — (networking)   The name of a host on the Internet belonging to the hierarchy of Internet domains.
  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
  • downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • driving lesson — a session involving driving practice and theory with a driving instructor
  • droit de suite — a right recognized by the legislation of several member countries of the European Union whereby an artist, or his or her heirs, is entitled to a share of the price of a work of art if it is resold during the artist's lifetime or for 70 years after his or her death
  • droit des gens — law of nations; international law.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • 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
  • 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.
  • east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
  • easternization — (usually initial capital letter) to influence with ideas, customs, etc., characteristic of eastern Asia.
  • eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
  • electric shock — electric current entering the body
  • electric storm — a violent atmospheric disturbance in which the air is highly charged with static electricity, causing a storm
  • electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
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