14-letter words containing e
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
- dream merchant — a person, as a moviemaker or advertiser, who panders to or seeks to develop the public's craving for luxury, romance, or escapism.
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- dress designer — a person who designs clothes
- dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
- dressing glass — a small, adjustable mirror designed to stand on a dressing table.
- dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
- driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
- drill sergeant — military officer who drills recruits
- drinking water — water that is safe to drink
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
- driving lesson — a session involving driving practice and theory with a driving instructor
- droit de suite — a right recognized by the legislation of several member countries of the European Union whereby an artist, or his or her heirs, is entitled to a share of the price of a work of art if it is resold during the artist's lifetime or for 70 years after his or her death
- droit des gens — law of nations; international law.
- drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
- drop a clanger — If you say that you have dropped a clanger, you mean that you have done or said something stupid or embarrassing.
- drop-dead date — an absolute deadline that cannot be missed
- drop-down menu — pull-down menu
- drop-in centre — (in Britain) a daycentre run by the social services or a charity that clients may attend on an informal basis
- drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
- dropper bottle — A dropper bottle is a container from which medicine is administered using a device that lets the medicine out in drops.
- drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
- drum majorette — a girl or woman who leads a marching band or drum corps.
- dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
- duck and drake — ducks and drakes (def 1).
- duckfoot quote — chevron-shaped quotation mark
- ductless gland — endocrine gland.
- dulce de leche — milk-based caramel sauce or candy
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- dunning letter — a letter pressing someone for payment
- duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
- duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
- duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
- dust and ashes — something that is very disappointing
- dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
- dust explosion — an explosion caused by the ignition of an inflammable dust, such as flour or sawdust, in the air
- dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.