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14-letter words containing l, y, c

  • decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
  • decimal system — the number system in general use, having a base of ten, in which numbers are expressed by combinations of the ten digits 0 to 9
  • delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
  • 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 speech — a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.
  • delayed-action — (of an explosive projectile) exploding some time after hitting the target.
  • 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.
  • democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • describability — The quality of being describable.
  • 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.
  • diachronically — in a diachronic fashion
  • diagenetically — in a diagenetic way
  • diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • dichotomically — division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • dictionary apl — Sharp APL
  • diplomatically — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
  • directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
  • discernability — The state of being discernable.
  • discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
  • discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
  • disciplinarily — In a disciplinary way.
  • disciplinarity — The quality of being an academic discipline.
  • discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
  • disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
  • disconnectedly — In a disconnected manner.
  • disconsolately — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
  • discontentedly — not content or satisfied; dissatisfied; restlessly unhappy: For all their wealth, or perhaps because of it, they were discontented.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • 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.
  • dissociability — Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
  • dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
  • dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
  • dolichocephaly — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • doomsday clock — an image of a clockface representing the time remaining before the onset of a global catastrophe in terms of a number of minutes before midnight
  • door-key child — latchkey child.
  • downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
  • dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
  • early american — (of furniture, buildings, utensils, etc.) built or made in the U.S. in the colonial period or somewhat later.
  • early check-in — An early check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in earlier than the normal time.
  • economic cycle — business cycle.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
  • ego psychology — the study of the adaptive and mediating functions of the ego and their role in personality development and emotional disorder
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