14-letter words containing r, e, d, c
- dessert cherry — the fruit of a cherry tree
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
- desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
- detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
- deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- device control — (character) One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
- device manager — (operating system) The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
- devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
- diaheliotropic — exhibiting diaheliotropism
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- diaper service — a service that provides clean diapers to parents and takes away dirty diapers to wash them
- diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
- diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
- digital camera — a camera that records images in digital form by means of a device that converts the optical image to an electrical signal.
- dihydrocodeine — a synthetic drug similar to codeine, used as an analgesic, an antidiarrhoeal, and to relieve coughing, or used recreationally
- dinner service — set of crockery and cutlery
- 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
- direct address — Grammar. the use of a term or name for the person spoken to, as in securing the attention of that person; use of a vocative form.
- direct current — Electricity. an electric current of constant direction, having a magnitude that does not vary or varies only slightly. Abbreviation: dc.
- direct deposit — a plan in which salaries or other payments are transferred by the paying agency directly to the accounts of the recipients.
- direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
- direct primary — a primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote.
- direct product — a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product.
- direct-examine — to subject to direct examination. Compare cross-examine (def 2).
- direct-reading — (of an instrument) calibrated so that a given quantity to be measured can be read directly off the scale without the need of a multiplying constant
- directed angle — See at directed (def 3).
- directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
- directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- 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.
- disaccharidase — an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides, as sucrose or lactose, to produce monosaccharides, as fructose or glucose.
- disappearances — Plural form of disappearance.
- disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
- disceptatorial — disputable
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
- discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
- discharge head — The discharge head is the pressure at the discharge of a pump, measured as a height.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
- 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.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- 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.