14-letter words containing i, d, r, s
- disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- 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.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- 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.
- 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.
- discriminating — to make or constitute a distinction in or between; differentiate: a mark that discriminates the original from the copy.
- discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
- discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- discriminators — Plural form of discriminator.
- discriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembarrassed — Simple past tense and past participle of disembarrass.
- disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disentrainment — the act of discharging troops from a train
- disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
- disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
- disincarcerate — to release from imprisonment
- disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- disintegrating — Present participle of disintegrate.
- 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.
- disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
- disinvestiture — the act or state of being disinvested
- disk mirroring — (hardware, storage) Use of one or more mirrors of a hard disk.
- disorderedness — The quality of being disordered.