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14-letter words containing s, c, r, i, e

  • 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.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
  • 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.
  • discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disincarcerate — to release from imprisonment
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
  • distractedness — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
  • district judge — any judge of a federal district court.
  • district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
  • diverticulitis — inflammation of one or more diverticula, characterized by abdominal pain, fever, and changes in bowel movements.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • divine service — service1 (def 15).
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
  • dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
  • 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
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • eccentricities — an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct: an interesting man, known for his eccentricities.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • electric shock — electric current entering the body
  • electric storm — a violent atmospheric disturbance in which the air is highly charged with static electricity, causing a storm
  • electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • electrodeposit — To deposit by means of electrodeposition.
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • electrogenesis — (biochemistry, physics) The production of electricity in the tissues of a living organism.
  • electrokinesis — (physics) The transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.
  • electrologists — Plural form of electrologist.
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