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14-letter words containing i, n, c, d, e

  • deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
  • deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
  • deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
  • decontaminated — Simple past tense and past participle of decontaminate.
  • decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
  • decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
  • decoration day — Memorial Day
  • decoration-day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
  • decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
  • decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
  • decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • decriminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decriminalize.
  • decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
  • dedicated line — (communications)   A telephone line leased expressly for the purpose of connecting two users more-or-less permenantly.. Such lines may be "voice grade" which provides the bandwidth and signal to noise ratio of ordinary public switched telephone network circuits, or specified in ways which allow transport of suitably encoded digital signals at faster rates. In some cases, lines may be physical wires between the communicating parties. Over longer distances, it is common for the connection to be virtual, which means that although the two users can communicate only with each other, their signals and others are multiplexed, amplified, switched, scrambled, demultiplexed and so on in complex ways between the end points. This contrasts with a dial-up connection which is only opened when one end requires it.
  • defect density — (programming)   The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • delayed action — A delayed action mechanism causes a delay on the device it is fitted to, so that it does not work as soon as you switch it on or operate it.
  • delayed-action — (of an explosive projectile) exploding some time after hitting the target.
  • delocalization — to remove from the proper or usual locality.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • demeclocycline — a broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 21 H 21 ClN 2 O 8 , derived from a mutant strain of the bacterium Streptomyces aureofaciens: used against a wide range of susceptible microorganisms.
  • denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
  • dendritic cell — a branching cell of the lymph nodes, blood, and spleen that functions as a network trapping foreign protein.
  • denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
  • dennis ritchie — (person)   Dennis M. Ritchie, co-author of the Unix operating system, inventor of the C programming language and demigod. See also K&R, Core War, If you want X, you know where to find it.
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
  • depoliticizing — Present participle of depoliticize.
  • depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
  • despicableness — The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
  • despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
  • detention camp — a compound where prisoners are detained temporarily, as pending determination of their legal status under immigration laws.
  • detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
  • device control — (character)   One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
  • device manager — (operating system)   The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
  • diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
  • diagenetically — in a diagenetic way
  • dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • dihydrocodeine — a synthetic drug similar to codeine, used as an analgesic, an antidiarrhoeal, and to relieve coughing, or used recreationally
  • dining kitchen — a room where meals are eaten and prepared
  • dinner service — set of crockery and cutlery
  • direct current — Electricity. an electric current of constant direction, having a magnitude that does not vary or varies only slightly. Abbreviation: dc.
  • direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
  • direct-examine — to subject to direct examination. Compare cross-examine (def 2).
  • direct-reading — (of an instrument) calibrated so that a given quantity to be measured can be read directly off the scale without the need of a multiplying constant
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