14-letter words containing r, e, t, y
- 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.
- deep-fat fryer — a device for cooking food by submerging it in hot fat
- defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- dehydroretinol — (organic compound) A derivative of retinol having an extra double bond; vitamin A2.
- deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
- deliverability — capable of delivery.
- delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
- democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- demythologizer — a person who removes mythical elements from something
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- departmentally — In a departmental manner; affecting departments.
- depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
- derivationally — In a derivational manner.
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- describability — The quality of being describable.
- dessert cherry — the fruit of a cherry tree
- detrimentality — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
- deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- dextrorotatory — turning or circling to the right, in a clockwise direction
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- diathermaneity — the quality of being diathermanous
- diethylpropion — a sympathomimetic substance, C 13 H 19 NO⋅HCl, used as an appetite suppressor and a short-term adjunct in the management of certain kinds of obesity.
- differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
- diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
- dimenhydrinate — a synthetic, crystalline, antihistamine powder, C 17 H 22 NO⋅C 7 H 6 ClN 4 O 2 , used in the treatment of allergic disorders and as a preventive for seasickness and airsickness.
- dimethyl ether — Dimethyl ether is a compound used as a propellant in aerosol canisters.
- dinner trolley — a small table on casters used for conveying food, drink, etc
- direct primary — a primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote.
- directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
- discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
- disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
- discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
- discretionally — At one's discretion.
- discriminately — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
- dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
- dispersibility — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.