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14-letter words containing s, l, a, u

  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
  • delta aquarids — either of two collections of meteors comprising meteor showers having their apparent origin in the constellation Aquarius and visible either in early May (Eta Aquarids) or late July (Delta Aquarids)
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
  • diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
  • dip-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is in the direction of the dip of the fault
  • disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
  • disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
  • disputatiously — In a disputatious manner.
  • disquisitional — Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
  • double bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • ductless gland — endocrine gland.
  • 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.
  • earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • earned surplus — retained earnings.
  • east st. louis — a city in SW Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.
  • ecclesiasticus — a book of the Apocrypha. Abbreviation: Ecclus.
  • 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
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
  • encaustic tile — a tile produced using the encaustic technique
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