14-letter words containing dis
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
- district court — (in many states) the court of general jurisdiction.
- 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.
- distrustful of — suspicious of; having no confidence in
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- encyclopedists — Plural form of encyclopedist.
- 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
- fireproof dish — a dish that can withstand heat
- focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- harpsichordist — One who plays the harpsichord.
- herniated disk — an abnormal protrusion of a spinal disk between vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region of the spine, causing pain due to pressure on spinal nerves.
- hypothyroidism — deficient activity of the thyroid gland.
- indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- indiscreetness — Indiscretion.
- indiscriminant — Misspelling of indiscriminate.
- indiscriminate — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- indispensables — Plural form of indispensable.
- indisposedness — The condition or quality of being indisposed.
- indispositions — Plural form of indisposition.
- indistinctness — not distinct; not clearly marked or defined: indistinct markings.
- kidney disease — medical condition affecting the kidneys
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- manic disorder — a type of affective disorder characterized by euphoric mood, excessive activity and talkativeness, impaired judgment, and sometimes psychotic symptoms, as grandiose delusions.
- mental disease — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- monodispersive — Monodisperse.
- mosaic disease — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- non-discerning — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- non-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- non-dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- non-disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nondisjunction — the failure of chromosomes to separate and segregate into daughter cells at division.
- nondistinctive — not serving to distinguish meanings: a nondistinctive difference in sound.
- outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
- overdistention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
- paradisiacally — in a paradisiacal way
- photoperiodism — the response, as affecting growth or reproduction, of an organism to the length of exposure to light in a 24-hour period.
- pick's disease — a condition characterized by progressive deterioration of the brain with atrophy of the cerebral cortex, esp. the frontal lobes, and evidenced in loss of memory and emotional instability
- placido's disk — a device marked with concentric black rings, used to detect corneal irregularities.
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
- pott's disease — caries of the bodies of the vertebrae, often resulting in marked curvature of the spine, and usually associated with a tuberculosis infection.