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14-letter words containing di

  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • diverging lens — a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
  • 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.
  • divertissement — a diversion or entertainment.
  • dividend cover — the number of times that a company's dividends to shareholders could be paid out of its annual profits after tax, used as an indication of the probability that dividends will be maintained in subsequent years
  • dividend yield — a company's annual dividend payments divided by its market capitalization
  • divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
  • divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • divine service — service1 (def 15).
  • divinylbenzene — a clear liquid, C 10 H 10 , easily polymerized, used in the manufacture of rubbers, drying oils, ion-exchange resins, and polyesters.
  • 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 wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
  • double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
  • down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • drainage ditch — a ditch that excess water drains into
  • drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
  • drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
  • echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
  • editorializing — Present participle of editorialize.
  • electrogilding — electroplating using gold
  • encyclopaediae — Irregular plural form of encyclopaedia.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • encyclopedical — (American spelling) alternative spelling of encyclopaedical.
  • encyclopedists — Plural form of encyclopedist.
  • endoradiosonde — an internally placed electronic device that relays information about conditions inside the body
  • ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
  • exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
  • extraordinaire — Outstanding or remarkable in a particular capacity.
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
  • feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
  • feeding frenzy — Slang. a ruthless attack on or exploitation of someone especially by the media.
  • feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
  • filter feeding — a method of feeding occurring in some aquatic animals, such as planktonic invertebrates and whalebone whales, in which minute food particles are filtered from the surrounding water
  • final dividend — the dividend paid on the basis of a company's results for a whole financial year. The final dividend is usually voted on at a company's AGM
  • finger reading — the reading of Braille by means of the fingertips.
  • finlandization — the neutralization of a country in terms of its allegiance to the superpowers, in the way that the Soviet Union rendered Finland neutral and friendly without making it a satellite state or requiring that it adopt Communism.
  • fireproof dish — a dish that can withstand heat
  • first division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the best records at a particular time (opposed to second division).
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