14-letter words containing n, a, p, s
- disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
- disapprobation — disapproval; condemnation.
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disciplinarian — a person who enforces or advocates discipline: The teacher was a formidable disciplinarian.
- disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
- disciplinarily — In a disciplinary way.
- disciplinarity — The quality of being an academic discipline.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- disimpassioned — calm; dispassionate.
- disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
- dispensational — Of or pertaining to dispensation.
- dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
- 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
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- displeasedness — the state of being displeased
- disposableness — Disposability.
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- 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.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- draining spoon — a spoon with holes in it
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- earned surplus — retained earnings.
- earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
- east northport — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- east pakistani — of or relating to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- 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.
- eastern europe — geography: Russia, Baltic Republics, etc.
- eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
- elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
- elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
- elephant's-ear — any aroid plant of the genus Colocasia, of tropical Asia and Polynesia, having very large heart-shaped leaves: grown for ornament and for their edible tubers
- emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
- encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
- encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
- endopeptidases — Plural form of endopeptidase.
- endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
- enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
- epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.