14-letter words containing s, u, c, e
- detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
- deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
- dioscoreaceous — of or relating to the Dioscoreaceae family of monocotyledonous plants that includes the yam (genus Dioscurea)
- dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
- direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
- director's cut — an edited version of a movie that has not been altered by a studio and over which its director has complete artistic control.
- disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
- discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
- 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.
- discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- 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.
- district judge — any judge of a federal district court.
- district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
- diverticulitis — inflammation of one or more diverticula, characterized by abdominal pain, fever, and changes in bowel movements.
- 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.
- dna sequencing — the procedure of determining the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
- do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
- double deckers — (jargon) Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- ductless gland — endocrine gland.
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- 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.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
- ecclesiasticus — a book of the Apocrypha. Abbreviation: Ecclus.
- educated guess — informed estimate
- 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
- electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.