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14-letter words containing s, o, d, y

  • desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
  • deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
  • diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
  • diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • dideoxyinosine — A drug that inhibits the replication of HIV and is used in the treatment of AIDS, especially in combination with zidovudine. It is a synthetic analog of a purine nucleoside.
  • dimensionality — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • dio chrysostom — 2nd century ad, Greek orator and philosopher
  • disappointedly — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
  • disapprobatory — Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
  • disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
  • discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
  • disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
  • disconnectedly — In a disconnected manner.
  • disconsolately — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
  • discontentedly — not content or satisfied; dissatisfied; restlessly unhappy: For all their wealth, or perhaps because of it, they were discontented.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • 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.
  • discriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
  • disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
  • disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • display window — shop window displaying goods
  • disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
  • disputatiously — In a disputatious manner.
  • dissociability — Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
  • dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
  • do you suppose — You can use 'do you suppose' to introduce a question when you want someone to give their opinion about something, although you know that they are unlikely to have any more knowledge or information about it than you.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
  • dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
  • donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
  • donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
  • doomsday clock — an image of a clockface representing the time remaining before the onset of a global catastrophe in terms of a number of minutes before midnight
  • dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
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