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14-letter words starting with d

  • dinitrobenzene — any of three isomeric benzene derivatives having the formula C 6 H 4 NO 2 , made by nitration of benzene or nitrobenzene, the most important of which is the meta form: used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes.
  • dinner service — set of crockery and cutlery
  • dinner theater — a restaurant in which a stage production is performed during or after dinner.
  • dinner theatre — a form of entertainment at which a play is performed while the audience is served dinner
  • dinner trolley — a small table on casters used for conveying food, drink, etc
  • dinnerware set — A dinnerware set is the same as a dinner service.
  • dinoflagellate — any of numerous chiefly marine plankton of the phylum Pyrrophyta (or, in some classification schemes, the order Dinoflagellata), usually having two flagella, one in a groove around the body and the other extending from its center.
  • dio chrysostom — 2nd century ad, Greek orator and philosopher
  • dioscoreaceous — of or relating to the Dioscoreaceae family of monocotyledonous plants that includes the yam (genus Dioscurea)
  • dip-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is in the direction of the dip of the fault
  • diphthongizing — Present participle of diphthongize.
  • diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
  • diplomatically — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
  • diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • dirac constant — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10–34 joule seconds
  • direct address — Grammar. the use of a term or name for the person spoken to, as in securing the attention of that person; use of a vocative form.
  • direct current — Electricity. an electric current of constant direction, having a magnitude that does not vary or varies only slightly. Abbreviation: dc.
  • direct deposit — a plan in which salaries or other payments are transferred by the paying agency directly to the accounts of the recipients.
  • direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
  • direct primary — a primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote.
  • direct product — a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product.
  • direct-examine — to subject to direct examination. Compare cross-examine (def 2).
  • direct-reading — (of an instrument) calibrated so that a given quantity to be measured can be read directly off the scale without the need of a multiplying constant
  • directed angle — See at directed (def 3).
  • directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
  • directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
  • director's cut — an edited version of a movie that has not been altered by a studio and over which its director has complete artistic control.
  • disaccharidase — an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides, as sucrose or lactose, to produce monosaccharides, as fructose or glucose.
  • disaccommodate — to inconvenience (a person)
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • disadvantaging — Present participle of disadvantage.
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • disaffiliation — The termination of an affiliation; the act of ceasing to be associated with something.
  • disaffirmation — The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
  • disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
  • disaggregating — Present participle of disaggregate.
  • disaggregation — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
  • disaggregative — separating from the mass or into parts
  • disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
  • disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
  • disappearances — Plural form of disappearance.
  • disapplication — a provision for exempting schools or individuals from the requirements of the National Curriculum in special circumstances
  • disappointedly — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
  • disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
  • disapprobation — disapproval; condemnation.
  • disapprobatory — Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
  • disappropriate — To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.
  • disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
  • disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
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