14-letter words containing s, o, n, a, d, l
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- 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
- digitalisation — Alternative spelling of digitalization.
- 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.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disaffiliation — The termination of an affiliation; the act of ceasing to be associated with something.
- disapplication — a provision for exempting schools or individuals from the requirements of the National Curriculum in special circumstances
- disappointedly — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- discolorations — Plural form of discoloration.
- discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disconsolately — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- disconsolation — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- discretionally — At one's discretion.
- disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
- disinclination — the absence of inclination; reluctance; unwillingness.
- dispensational — Of or pertaining to dispensation.
- 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
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- disposableness — Disposability.
- disquisitional — Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
- dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
- dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
- 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.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- 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 spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- dragon's blood — a deep-red, water-insoluble resin exuding from the fruit of a palm, Daemonorops draco, of the Malay Archipelago, used chiefly in the preparation of varnishes and in photoengraving for protecting certain areas of the metal plate from the acid.
- drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- 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.
- educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.