14-letter words containing l, o, s, e
- 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.
- disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disillusionise — Alternative spelling of disillusionize.
- disillusionize — to disillusion.
- disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
- disinvolvement — the action or process of withdrawing from an obligation or commitment, especially from a political or military involvement: The secretary of state promised disinvolvement from the alliance.
- disorderliness — The state or quality of being disorderly.
- dispensational — Of or pertaining to dispensation.
- 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
- disposableness — Disposability.
- dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
- 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.
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- do one's block — to become angry
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
- dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
- double bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
- double blossom — a disease of blackberries and dewberries, characterized by witches'-brooms and flower malformations, caused by a fungus, Cercosporella rubi.
- double deckers — (jargon) Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
- double density — floppy disk
- double dresser — a dresser having two long drawers across its width for most of its height.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- driving lesson — a session involving driving practice and theory with a driving instructor
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
- dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
- dust explosion — an explosion caused by the ignition of an inflammable dust, such as flour or sawdust, in the air
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
- east palo alto — a town in W central California, on the S shore of San Francisco Bay.
- east st. louis — a city in SW Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.