14-letter words containing s, c, a
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- data processor — a computer that is capable of performing operations on data in order to extract information, reorder files, etc
- data structure — an organized form, such as an array list or string, in which connected data items are held in a computer
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- dead-air space — an unventilated air space in which the air does not circulate.
- death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
- death sentence — A death sentence is a punishment of death given by a judge to someone who has been found guilty of a serious crime such as murder.
- deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- decay constant — the reciprocal of the decay time.
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- decimal system — the number system in general use, having a base of ten, in which numbers are expressed by combinations of the ten digits 0 to 9
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
- decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- decorated shed — a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
- delayed speech — a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.
- delectableness — The state or quality of being delectable.
- dental records — records produced during a dental examination and recording the state of a patient's teeth
- dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- descartes' law — Snell's law.
- describability — The quality of being describable.
- despicableness — The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
- despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
- detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- dialectologist — a specialist in dialectology.
- 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