14-letter words containing u, s, r, d
- demerara sugar — Demerara sugar is a type of brown sugar. It is made from sugar cane that is grown in the West Indies.
- demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- depressurizing — Present participle of depressurize.
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
- desert culture — the nomadic hunting, fishing, and gathering preagricultural post-Pleistocene phase in the American West, characterized by an efficient exploitation of varied natural resources that was continued by Amerindian cultures into historic times.
- despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- 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
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
- 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.
- disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
- disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
- disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
- discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- 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.
- 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
- disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
- disinvestiture — the act or state of being disinvested
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- 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.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.