16-letter words containing dis
- miller's disease — osteofibrosis of horses due to low concentration of phosphorus in the blood caused by eating bran exclusively
- minamata disease — a severe form of mercury poisoning, characterized by neurological degeneration.
- multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- multidisciplined — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
- mutatis mutandis — the necessary changes having been made.
- natural disaster — meteorological or geological catastrophe
- nondiscretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
- pierce's disease — a disease of grapes caused by a rickettsialike organism, characterized by dwarfing of vines, mottling of woody tissues, and plant death.
- predispositional — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
- psychic distance — the degree of emotional detachment maintained toward a person, group of people, event, etc.
- pullorum disease — a highly contagious, frequently fatal disease of young poultry caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum (pullorum), transmitted by the infected hen during egg production, and characterized by weakness, loss of appetite, and diarrhea.
- ranikhet disease — Newcastle disease.
- redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
- self-discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
- self-disciplined — Someone who is self-disciplined has the ability to control themselves and to make themselves work hard or behave in a particular way without needing anyone else to tell them what to do.
- self-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- self-dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- shoot-to-disable — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to disable rather than kill
- solid dispersion — Solid dispersion is the process of dispersing a solid through a liquid in order to increase contact.
- solid state disk — (SSD)
Any kind of solid-state storage device that appears to the system as a disk drive. SSDs are more expensive that the same capacity of magnetic disk but have much shorter access time. - static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
- swedish vallhund — a small sturdy dog of a Swedish breed with a long body and pricked pointed ears
- the dispossessed — people who have had property or possessions taken away
- the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
- thought disorder — disorganized speech, as flight of ideas or loosening of associations, thought to reflect disorganized thinking and occurring as a symptom of some types of mental illness, as manic disorder or schizophrenia.
- to dish the dirt — If someone dishes the dirt on you, they say bad things about you, without worrying if they are true or not, or if they will damage your reputation.
- under discussion — If something is under discussion, it is still being talked about and a final decision has not yet been reached.
- undiscriminating — differentiating; analytical.
- undiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- unfair dismissal — wrongful firing from a job
- venereal disease — sexually transmitted disease. Abbreviation: VD.
- videodisc player — an electronic device for playing videodiscs through a television set.
- walking distance — distance that can easily be walked
- well-disciplined — having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
- wilson's disease — a rare hereditary disease in which copper accumulates in the brain and liver, gradually leading to tremors, muscular rigidity, kidney malfunction, and cognitive disturbances: marked by Kayser-Fleischer rings.