14-letter words containing l, a, d, e, r, i
- detrimentality — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
- diaheliotropic — exhibiting diaheliotropism
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
- differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
- digital camera — a camera that records images in digital form by means of a device that converts the optical image to an electrical signal.
- dihedral angle — the angle between two planes in a dihedron.
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- directed angle — See at directed (def 3).
- directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
- disceptatorial — disputable
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- discretionally — At one's discretion.
- 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.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- 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
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
- diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
- diverticulated — having diverticula
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- draggle-tailed — untidy; bedraggled; slovenly.
- dragline crane — an excavating crane having a bucket that is dropped from a boom and dragged toward the crane base by a cable.
- 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.
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
- dressing glass — a small, adjustable mirror designed to stand on a dressing table.
- dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
- driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
- drill sergeant — military officer who drills recruits
- driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- e-mail address — electronic mail address