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14-letter words containing s, i, d, e, p, a

  • disappointmentCape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
  • disappropriate — To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.
  • disceptatorial — disputable
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
  • disimpassioned — calm; dispassionate.
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
  • dispensational — Of or pertaining to dispensation.
  • dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • dispersal zone — a defined area in which any police or community support officer can force any group of two or more people to disperse for 24 hours
  • displeasedness — the state of being displeased
  • disposableness — Disposability.
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
  • donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
  • endopeptidases — Plural form of endopeptidase.
  • endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
  • expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
  • expansion card — (hardware)   A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
  • field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • friday prayers — the congregational prayers observed by Muslims every Friday
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • headmastership — The role or position of headmaster.
  • hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
  • hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
  • hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
  • impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • indispensables — Plural form of indispensable.
  • inland passage — Inside Passage
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