14-letter words containing e
- disinvestiture — the act or state of being disinvested
- disinvolvement — the action or process of withdrawing from an obligation or commitment, especially from a political or military involvement: The secretary of state promised disinvolvement from the alliance.
- disjointedness — having the joints or connections separated: a disjointed fowl.
- disk duplexing — (hardware, storage) A variation on disk mirroring where, as well as redundant disk drives, a second disk controller or host adapter is also present.
- dismal science — the science of economics
- dismissiveness — A form of denial, characterized by either passively showing indifference or disregard, or actively dismissing or rejecting ideas or evidence.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- disorderedness — The quality of being disordered.
- disorderliness — The state or quality of being disorderly.
- disorientating — to disorient.
- disorientation — to disorient.
- dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
- dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
- dispensational — Of or pertaining to dispensation.
- dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
- dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
- dispersal zone — a defined area in which any police or community support officer can force any group of two or more people to disperse for 24 hours
- dispersibility — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- dispiritedness — The state or condition of being dispirited.
- dispiteousness — the state of being without pity
- displeasedness — the state of being displeased
- displenishment — the act of displenishing
- disposableness — Disposability.
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- 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.
- dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
- dissimilitudes — Plural form of dissimilitude.
- dissuasiveness — The quality of being dissuasive.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- distensibility — Capability of swelling or stretching.
- distractedness — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- distressedness — The state or quality of being distressed; anxiety.
- distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
- distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- 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.
- diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
- 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).