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

  • 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.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
  • dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
  • ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
  • 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.
  • electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
  • electroosmosis — osmosis through a membrane that is caused by the action of an electric field, usually such a field generated by two electrodes, one on each side of the membrane
  • electrophorese — (biochemistry) To carry out electrophoresis on something.
  • electrosensory — Of or pertaining to the ability of a biological organism to perceive electrical impulses.
  • electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
  • electrostatics — The study of stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • enclosed order — a Christian religious order that does not permit its members to go into the outside world
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
  • enterocentesis — a procedure that involves puncturing the intestine to withdraw fluid or gas
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
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