14-letter words containing s, c, a
- disincarcerate — to release from imprisonment
- disinclination — the absence of inclination; reluctance; unwillingness.
- disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- dismal science — the science of economics
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- dissociability — Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
- distractedness — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
- dna sequencing — the procedure of determining the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
- doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
- dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
- dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
- domestic staff — servants
- domestications — Plural form of domestication.
- doomsday clock — an image of a clockface representing the time remaining before the onset of a global catastrophe in terms of a number of minutes before midnight
- dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- ductless gland — endocrine gland.
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- east china sea — a part of the N Pacific, bounded by China, Japan, the Ryukyus, and Taiwan. 480,000 sq. mi. (1,243,200 sq. km).
- east cleveland — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- eastern camass — wild hyacinth.
- eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
- eastern thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
- ecclesiastical — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
- ecclesiasticus — a book of the Apocrypha. Abbreviation: Ecclus.
- eco-capitalism — the theory or practice of a free-market economy in which natural resources are regarded as capital and profits are partially dependent on environmental protection and sustainability
- ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
- economicalness — The quality of being economical.
- ectocommensals — Plural form of ectocommensal.
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- educated guess — informed estimate
- educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- elastic tissue — a connective tissue consisting largely of yellow, elastic fibers, occurring especially in the walls of arteries and veins