14-letter words containing o, n, s, l
- disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
- disillusioning — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- disillusionise — Alternative spelling of disillusionize.
- disillusionist — to disillusion.
- disillusionize — to disillusion.
- disinclination — the absence of inclination; reluctance; unwillingness.
- disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
- 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.
- disorderliness — The state or quality of being disorderly.
- dispensational — Of or pertaining to dispensation.
- dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
- dispersal zone — a defined area in which any police or community support officer can force any group of two or more people to disperse for 24 hours
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- disposableness — Disposability.
- disquisitional — Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
- dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
- dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
- dissolutionism — the beliefs and practices of dissolutionists
- dissolutionist — a person whose aim is dissolution
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- do one's block — to become angry
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
- double bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
- double density — floppy disk
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- dragon's blood — a deep-red, water-insoluble resin exuding from the fruit of a palm, Daemonorops draco, of the Malay Archipelago, used chiefly in the preparation of varnishes and in photoengraving for protecting certain areas of the metal plate from the acid.
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- driving lesson — a session involving driving practice and theory with a driving instructor
- driving school — vehicle operation lessons
- drop-down list — pull-down list
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- 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.
- dust explosion — an explosion caused by the ignition of an inflammable dust, such as flour or sawdust, in the air
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- economicalness — The quality of being economical.
- ectocommensals — Plural form of ectocommensal.
- educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- effortlessness — The state of being effortless; facility.
- electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity