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14-letter words containing s, p, e, c, d

  • despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
  • diaper service — a service that provides clean diapers to parents and takes away dirty diapers to wash them
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • direct deposit — a plan in which salaries or other payments are transferred by the paying agency directly to the accounts of the recipients.
  • disappearances — Plural form of disappearance.
  • disceptatorial — disputable
  • discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • 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.
  • electrodeposit — To deposit by means of electrodeposition.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • encyclopedists — Plural form of encyclopedist.
  • endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
  • expansion card — (hardware)   A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • food processor — an electric appliance with interchangeable blades within a closed container into which food is inserted for slicing, shredding, mincing, chopping, puréeing, or otherwise processing at high speeds.
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
  • hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • independencies — Plural form of independency.
  • indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • intussuscepted — Received into some other thing or part, like a sword into a sheath.
  • isla de pascua — Spanish name of Easter Island.
  • issued capital — the shares of a company that have been sold or distributed
  • japanese cedar — Japan cedar.
  • l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
  • landscape mode — a wide exposure suitable for photographing landscapes
  • leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • matched sample — a sample in which the individuals selected for analysis share all properties except that under investigation
  • misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
  • muscle spindle — Cell Biology. a proprioceptor in skeletal muscle, composed of striated muscle fibers and sensory nerve endings in a connective tissue sheath, that conveys information via the spinal nerves on the state of muscle stretch, important in the reflex mechanism that maintains body posture.
  • nondescription — Absence of description; failure to describe something.
  • nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • ordnance corps — a combat support military unit responsible for developing and maintaining weapons and weapon systems
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
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