14-letter words containing o, d, i, t
- discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discourteously — In a discourteous 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.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disillusionist — to disillusion.
- disinclination — the absence of inclination; reluctance; unwillingness.
- disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
- disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
- disintegration — the act or process of disintegrating.
- disintegrators — Plural form of disintegrator.
- disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
- disinvolvement — the action or process of withdrawing from an obligation or commitment, especially from a political or military involvement: The secretary of state promised disinvolvement from the alliance.
- disjoint union — In domain theory, a union (or sum) which results in a domain without a least element.
- disjointedness — having the joints or connections separated: a disjointed fowl.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- disorientating — to disorient.
- disorientation — to disorient.
- dispensational — Of or pertaining to dispensation.
- dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
- dispiteousness — the state of being without pity
- disproportions — Plural form of disproportion.
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- disputatiously — In a disputatious manner.
- disquisitional — Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
- dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
- dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
- dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
- dissociability — Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
- dissolutionism — the beliefs and practices of dissolutionists
- dissolutionist — a person whose aim is dissolution
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- district court — (in many states) the court of general jurisdiction.
- distrustful of — suspicious of; having no confidence in
- dithionic acid — a strong, unstable acid, H 2 S 2 O 6 , known only in solution and in the form of its salts.
- diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
- diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
- do one's thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
- do violence to — to inflict harm upon; damage or violate