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

  • discontentment — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
  • discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
  • discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • 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.
  • disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disincarcerate — to release from imprisonment
  • disincentivise — Alternative spelling of disincentivize.
  • disincentivize — to discourage or deter by removing incentives: The expiration of tax credits will disincentivize future participation in the energy-efficiency program. More affordable cholesterol-lowering medication may disincentivize people from adopting a vegetarian diet.
  • 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.
  • distractedness — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
  • district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
  • divine service — service1 (def 15).
  • dna sequencing — the procedure of determining the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
  • domestications — Plural form of domestication.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • 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
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • 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 greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • eccentricities — an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct: an interesting man, known for his eccentricities.
  • echinococcosis — a parasitic disease caused by tapeworms of the genus Echinococcosis
  • economicalness — The quality of being economical.
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • 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.
  • elegiac stanza — a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming
  • ellice islands — group of islands in the WC Pacific, north of Fiji: under British control, 1892-1978; name changed to Tuvalu in 1976 and as such became independent in 1978
  • éminence grise — a person who wields power and influence unofficially or behind the scenes
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