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14-letter words containing m, s, e, r

  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • 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.
  • discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disembarrassed — Simple past tense and past participle of disembarrass.
  • disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • disentrainment — the act of discharging troops from a train
  • disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
  • disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
  • disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
  • disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
  • disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
  • distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
  • divertissement — a diversion or entertainment.
  • dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • domain address — (networking)   The name of a host on the Internet belonging to the hierarchy of Internet domains.
  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
  • dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
  • e-mail address — electronic mail address
  • eastern camass — wild hyacinth.
  • eastern empire — the eastern part of the Roman Empire, especially after the division in a.d. 395, having its capital at Constantinople: survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • egalitarianism — belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, social, or economic life.
  • eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
  • electric storm — a violent atmospheric disturbance in which the air is highly charged with static electricity, causing a storm
  • electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
  • electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
  • electroosmosis — osmosis through a membrane that is caused by the action of an electric field, usually such a field generated by two electrodes, one on each side of the membrane
  • elementariness — The state or condition of being elementary.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • ellesmere port — a port in NW England, in NW Cheshire on the Mersey estuary and Manchester Ship Canal. Pop: 66 265 (2001)
  • embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
  • embarrassments — Plural form of embarrassment.
  • emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
  • éminence grise — a person who wields power and influence unofficially or behind the scenes
  • emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
  • entertainments — Plural form of entertainment.
  • ephemeris time — time that is based on the orbit of the earth around the sun rather than the axial rotation of the earth, one ephemeris second being 1⁄31 556 925.9747 of the tropical year 1900. It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time
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