14-letter words containing o, s, e, t
- dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- desalinisation — Removal of salt and other minerals from water; desalination.
- desalinization — desalt.
- despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
- deteriorations — Plural form of deterioration.
- determinations — Plural form of determination.
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- devil's tattoo — a rapid or nervous drumming with the fingers or feet
- devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
- dialectologist — a specialist in dialectology.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
- dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
- dies committee — an early, informal name for the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- 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.
- diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
- dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
- direct deposit — a plan in which salaries or other payments are transferred by the paying agency directly to the accounts of the recipients.
- 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.
- disaccommodate — to inconvenience (a person)
- disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- disaggregation — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disappointedly — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
- disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
- disappropriate — To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.
- disassociative — That disassociates; that causes disassociation.
- disassortative — (mathematics) Describing a graph (or network) in which nodes of low degree are more likely to connect with nodes high degree.
- disaster movie — a film in which a disastrous event such as an earthquake, fire, air crash etc is the focus of the action
- disceptatorial — disputable
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
- disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- disconnectedly — In a disconnected manner.
- disconnections — Plural form of disconnection.
- 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.
- discontentment — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
- discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
- 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.