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

  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
  • director's cut — an edited version of a movie that has not been altered by a studio and over which its director has complete artistic control.
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • 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.
  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
  • disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
  • disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
  • disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
  • disinvestiture — the act or state of being disinvested
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • 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.
  • do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
  • do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double dresser — a dresser having two long drawers across its width for most of its height.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • 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.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • droit de suite — a right recognized by the legislation of several member countries of the European Union whereby an artist, or his or her heirs, is entitled to a share of the price of a work of art if it is resold during the artist's lifetime or for 70 years after his or her death
  • 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.
  • 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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