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14-letter words containing n, o, i, c

  • discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
  • discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
  • discriminators — Plural form of discriminator.
  • discriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • disinclination — the absence of inclination; reluctance; unwillingness.
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • dithionic acid — a strong, unstable acid, H 2 S 2 O 6 , known only in solution and in the form of its salts.
  • dividend cover — the number of times that a company's dividends to shareholders could be paid out of its annual profits after tax, used as an indication of the probability that dividends will be maintained in subsequent years
  • do violence to — to inflict harm upon; damage or violate
  • docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
  • domestications — Plural form of domestication.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
  • draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • dramatic irony — irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • driving school — vehicle operation lessons
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • drop-in centre — (in Britain) a daycentre run by the social services or a charity that clients may attend on an informal basis
  • drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • 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.
  • dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
  • dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
  • echinococcosis — a parasitic disease caused by tapeworms of the genus Echinococcosis
  • ecoengineering — A form of engineering that aims to work in harmony with the natural environment.
  • econometrician — Someone who studies economies with a view to mathematics.
  • economic cycle — business cycle.
  • economic model — model (def 10).
  • economicalness — The quality of being economical.
  • education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
  • election night — the evening when the votes from an election are being counted
  • electioneering — Campaigning for elective office on behalf of oneself or another candidate.
  • electric organ — a pipe organ operated by electrical means
  • electric piano — a piano operated by electrical means
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
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