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14-letter words containing u, n, d, e, o

  • dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
  • dehumanization — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • deoxyguanosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to guanosine.
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • deunionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
  • deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
  • deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
  • devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
  • devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • diffusion line — a range of clothes made by a top fashion designer for a high-street retailer
  • diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • 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.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • disillusionise — Alternative spelling of disillusionize.
  • disillusionize — to disillusion.
  • disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
  • dispiteousness — the state of being without pity
  • do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
  • do one's stuff — If you do your stuff, you perform an activity in the way that people expect.
  • do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
  • do the needful — to perform a necessary task
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • 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 coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
  • double entente — a double meaning; ambiguity.
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
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