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14-letter words containing o, d, u, r, s

  • cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
  • cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
  • crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
  • crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
  • cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
  • dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
  • deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
  • deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
  • deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
  • dioscoreaceous — of or relating to the Dioscoreaceae family of monocotyledonous plants that includes the yam (genus Dioscurea)
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • director's cut — an edited version of a movie that has not been altered by a studio and over which its director has complete artistic control.
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
  • do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
  • do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
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