14-letter words containing i, h, e, a, d, n
- dental hygiene — the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc
- desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- diamond-shaped — rhombic
- diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
- diathermaneity — the quality of being diathermanous
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- die in harness — to die while still working or active, prior to retirement
- different than — different from
- diffie-hellman — (cryptography) A public-key encryption key exchange algorithm.
- dihedral angle — the angle between two planes in a dihedron.
- dimenhydrinate — a synthetic, crystalline, antihistamine powder, C 17 H 22 NO⋅C 7 H 6 ClN 4 O 2 , used in the treatment of allergic disorders and as a preventive for seasickness and airsickness.
- dinner theater — a restaurant in which a stage production is performed during or after dinner.
- dinner theatre — a form of entertainment at which a play is performed while the audience is served dinner
- disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
- dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
- down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
- drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
- 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
- edgar atheling — ?1050–?1125, grandson of Edmund II; Anglo-Saxon pretender to the English throne in 1066
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- english saddle — a lightweight saddle with a low cantle and pommel and no horn, designed to place the rider's weight forward onto the withers
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening