14-letter words containing n, y, s
- delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- deoxyadenosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to adenosine.
- deoxyguanosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to guanosine.
- desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
- dideoxyinosine — A drug that inhibits the replication of HIV and is used in the treatment of AIDS, especially in combination with zidovudine. It is a synthetic analog of a purine nucleoside.
- dimensionality — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- disappointedly — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disbelievingly — In a disbelieving manner; in a manner that is difficult to believe.
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- disidentifying — Present participle of disidentify.
- disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
- disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
- disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
- dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
- dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- distensibility — Capability of swelling or stretching.
- ditransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being ditransitive.
- 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.
- donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- double density — floppy disk
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
- dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
- earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
- easy listening — middle-of-the-road (def 3).