14-letter words containing l, s, e, r
- desirelessness — Absence of desire.
- despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
- disceptatorial — disputable
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
- discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
- 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.
- disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- 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.
- 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.
- disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- disorderliness — The state or quality of being disorderly.
- 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.
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
- distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- 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.
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- double deckers — (jargon) Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
- 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-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
- 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.