14-letter words containing si
- discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disidentifying — Present participle of disidentify.
- disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
- disillusioning — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- disillusionise — Alternative spelling of disillusionize.
- disillusionist — to disillusion.
- disillusionize — to disillusion.
- disimpassioned — calm; dispassionate.
- disincarcerate — to release from imprisonment
- disincentivise — Alternative spelling of disincentivize.
- disincentivize — to discourage or deter by removing incentives: The expiration of tax credits will disincentivize future participation in the energy-efficiency program. More affordable cholesterol-lowering medication may disincentivize people from adopting a vegetarian diet.
- disinclination — the absence of inclination; reluctance; unwillingness.
- disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
- disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
- disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- disintegrating — Present participle of disintegrate.
- disintegration — the act or process of disintegrating.
- disintegrative — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disintegrators — Plural form of disintegrator.
- disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
- disinteresting — absence of interest; indifference.
- disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
- 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.
- dismissiveness — A form of denial, characterized by either passively showing indifference or disregard, or actively dismissing or rejecting ideas or evidence.
- dispersibility — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- disquisitional — Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
- dissimilitudes — Plural form of dissimilitude.
- dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
- dissuasiveness — The quality of being dissuasive.
- distensibility — Capability of swelling or stretching.
- ditransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being ditransitive.
- 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.
- double density — floppy disk
- dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
- drainage basin — the area drained by a river and all its tributaries. Also called catchment area, drainage area. Compare watershed (def 2).
- draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
- dream analysis — the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- dress designer — a person who designs clothes
- 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.
- dust explosion — an explosion caused by the ignition of an inflammable dust, such as flour or sawdust, in the air
- ecclesiastical — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
- ecclesiasticus — a book of the Apocrypha. Abbreviation: Ecclus.
- ecclesiologist — One versed in ecclesiology.
- echinococcosis — a parasitic disease caused by tapeworms of the genus Echinococcosis