14-letter words containing se
- depressed area — a region where unemployment and a low standard of living prevail.
- dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- desert culture — the nomadic hunting, fishing, and gathering preagricultural post-Pleistocene phase in the American West, characterized by an efficient exploitation of varied natural resources that was continued by Amerindian cultures into historic times.
- desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
- dessert cherry — the fruit of a cherry tree
- detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
- diaper service — a service that provides clean diapers to parents and takes away dirty diapers to wash them
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
- diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
- dinner service — set of crockery and cutlery
- dinnerware set — A dinnerware set is the same as a dinner service.
- disaccharidase — an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides, as sucrose or lactose, to produce monosaccharides, as fructose or glucose.
- disassemblable — That can be disassembled.
- discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembarrassed — Simple past tense and past participle of disembarrass.
- disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disengagedness — the quality of being disengaged
- disengagements — Plural form of disengagement.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disentrainment — the act of discharging troops from a train
- disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
- disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
- disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
- disillusionise — Alternative spelling of disillusionize.
- disincentivise — Alternative spelling of disincentivize.
- displeasedness — the state of being displeased
- 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.
- distressedness — The state or quality of being distressed; anxiety.
- district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
- divertissement — a diversion or entertainment.
- divine service — service1 (def 15).
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- dna sequencing — the procedure of determining the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
- do you suppose — You can use 'do you suppose' to introduce a question when you want someone to give their opinion about something, although you know that they are unlikely to have any more knowledge or information about it than you.
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
- double dresser — a dresser having two long drawers across its width for most of its height.
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- doubly serrate — biserrate