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14-letter words containing s, a, u, r

  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • dead sea fruit — something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • delta aquarids — either of two collections of meteors comprising meteor showers having their apparent origin in the constellation Aquarius and visible either in early May (Eta Aquarids) or late July (Delta Aquarids)
  • demerara sugar — Demerara sugar is a type of brown sugar. It is made from sugar cane that is grown in the West Indies.
  • demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • 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
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
  • disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
  • 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.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
  • dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
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