14-letter words containing sin
- 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.
- drainage basin — the area drained by a river and all its tributaries. Also called catchment area, drainage area. Compare watershed (def 2).
- 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.
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- enterprisingly — In an enterprising manner.
- essentialising — Present participle of essentialise.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
- grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
- housing estate — housing development.
- housing market — property trade
- housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
- imposing stone — a slab, formerly of stone but now usually of metal, on which pages of type or plates are imposed and on which type correcting in the page is done.
- in single file — one behind another
- inverse cosine — arc cosine.
- jesuits' resin — an oleoresin obtained from several tropical, chiefly South American trees belonging to the genus Copaifera, of the legume family, used chiefly in varnishes and lacquers, for removing old oil varnish from or for brightening oil paintings, and formerly in medicine in the treatment of certain mucous-membrane conditions.
- kissing bridge — a covered bridge.
- kissing cousin — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
- kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
- lake nipissing — a lake in central Canada, in E Ontario between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay. Area: 855 sq km (330 sq miles)
- law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
- level crossing — grade crossing.
- licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
- melamine resin — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the interaction of melamine and formaldehyde: used chiefly as adhesives for laminated materials and as coatings for paper, plastics, and textiles.
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.
- misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
- misinstruction — Wrong or improper instruction.
- misinterpreted — Simple past tense and past participle of misinterpret.
- missing person — sb who has disappeared
- mixed blessing — something that, although generally favorable or advantageous, has one or more unfavorable or disadvantageous features.
- new kensington — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
- nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
- nursing sister — a female nurse, sometimes of a high grade
- okavango basin — a river in SW central Africa, rising in central Angola and flowing southeast, then east as part of the border between Angola and Namibia, then southeast across the Caprivi Strip into Botswana to form a great marsh known as the Okavango Basin, Delta or Swamp. Length: about 1600 km (1000 miles)
- pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal