14-letter words containing o, d, r, a, n
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
- darby and joan — an ideal elderly married couple living in domestic harmony
- dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
- dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decolorization — decolor.
- deconcentrated — to reduce the power or control of (a corporation, industry, etc.); decentralize.
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
- decoration day — Memorial Day
- decoration-day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- delaine merino — one of an American strain of Merino sheep.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- demonstrations — Plural form of demonstration.
- demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
- demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
- demoralization — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralizingly — in a demoralizing manner
- denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
- dental records — records produced during a dental examination and recording the state of a patient's teeth
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- depersonalised — Simple past tense and past participle of depersonalise.
- depersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of depersonalize.
- depersonalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depersonalize.
- deplorableness — The state or quality of being deplorable.
- depolarisation — Alternative spelling of depolarization.
- depolarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
- deregistration — The process of which an employee is removed from work registrant status.
- derivationally — In a derivational manner.
- derivatization — the process of making a chemical compound into a derivative
- derivitization — (organic chemistry) The formation of a chemical derivative.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- deteriorations — Plural form of deterioration.
- determinations — Plural form of determination.
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- dextrinization — The process of dextrinizing.
- dextrorotation — a rotation to the right; clockwise rotation, esp of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light passing through a crystal, liquid, or solution, as seen by an observer facing the oncoming light
- diachronically — in a diachronic fashion