14-letter words containing i, d, r, s
- disorderliness — The state or quality of being disorderly.
- disorientating — to disorient.
- disorientation — to disorient.
- dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
- 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
- dispersibility — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- dispiritedness — The state or condition of being dispirited.
- disproportions — Plural form of disproportion.
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- 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.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- 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.
- distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
- district court — (in many states) the court of general jurisdiction.
- district judge — any judge of a federal district court.
- district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
- distrustful of — suspicious of; having no confidence in
- ditransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being ditransitive.
- 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.
- diverticulitis — inflammation of one or more diverticula, characterized by abdominal pain, fever, and changes in bowel movements.
- 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.
- divertissement — a diversion or entertainment.
- divine service — service1 (def 15).
- 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.
- dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
- drainage basin — the area drained by a river and all its tributaries. Also called catchment area, drainage area. Compare watershed (def 2).
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- draining spoon — a spoon with holes in it
- dramatisations — Plural form of dramatisation.
- dramatizations — Plural form of dramatization.
- draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.