14-Letter Words Starting with D

""DAGUERREOTYPE An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.""

Daguerreotype

Damnableness

Dandification

Daredeviltry

Debonairness

Decamethonium

Decarbonation

Decarboxylase

Inflected form of CARBOXYLATED Inflected form of CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

Decarboxylate

Causing a dispersion or movement away from the center; -- used especially of power or administrative functions. Opposite of centralizing.centralizing.

Decerebration

""Inflected form of CHLORINATING Inflected form of CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

""CHLORINATION The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

Decidability

""The act of changing to a decimal system; as, the decimalization of the British currency.as, the decimalization of the British currency.""

The action of changing from colonial to independent status.

COLORIZATION

""Inflected form of COMPENSATING Inflected form of COMPENSATE To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.""

COMPENSATION The act or principle of compensating.

""CONCENTRATED Having a high density of (the indicated substance); as, a narrow thread of concentrated ore.as, a narrow thread of concentrated ore.""

Deconcentrate

Inflected form of CONSECRATING Inflected form of CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

CONSECRATION The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.

Reconstructed mine, and acted to clear of pollution

Tainted comedian reformed, one coming out cleaned up

Removed corruption from type of art by crazy tainted man

Decontaminate

""Inflected form of CONTAMINATOR Inflected form of CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

Decorative

Decortication

Decrepitation

Inflected form of CRIMINALIZED Inflected form of CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

Decriminalize

""FEMINIZATION The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.""

DEFENESTRATE to throw (something or someone) out of a window.

Act of ejecting someone through a window

Act of throwing out of a window

Ejection from a window

FIBRILLATING fibrillate

FIBRILLATION The state of being reduced to fibers.

They shock and bestir frail old rebels

Defibrination

Deforestation

Degeneracy.

Degranulation

HUMANIZATION The act of humanizing.

Dehydrogenase

Inflected form of HYDROGENATED Inflected form of HYDROGENATE To hydrogenize.

Dehydrogenate

LEGITIMATION The act of making legitimate.

The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.

In a deliberative manner; circumspectly; considerately.

""(mainly tr) to carry (goods, etc.) to a destination, esp to carry and distribute (goods, mail, etc.) to several places to deliver letters our local butcher delivers""

""LOCALIZATION Act of localizing, or state of being localized.""

""Inflected form of MATERIALIZED Inflected form of MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

Dematerialize

Setting up buffer zones

Demineralizer

Inflected form of MINERALIZING Inflected form of MINERALIZE To transform into a mineral.

Quick note from Edward Elgar (wordplay)

Note death, note tremble!

Brief note (wordplay)

Post-war problem for Uncle Sam

The way our country is run

By popular vote

""The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.""

Shows how modern stations can be designed

Demonstrative

""The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy. as, the demoralization of an army or navy.""

Demoralizing

Demyelination

""Inflected form of NATIONALIZED Inflected form of NATIONALIZE To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.""

Denationalize

""Inflected form of NATURALIZING Inflected form of NATURALIZE To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. as, custom naturalizes labor or study.""

NAZIFICATION

""Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society.""

Densification

Denticulation

Inflected form of NUCLEARIZING Inflected form of NUCLEARIZE

NUMERABILITY

Deodorization

Deoxygenation

Daydream (wordplay)

Describing how France is divided, become absent-minded (wordplay)

Leave old boys before match, as college's organised, perhaps

Dependable

Inflected form of PERSONALIZED Inflected form of PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Depersonalize

""PIGMENTATION A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver. as, pigmentation of the liver.""

State of being deplorable.

""The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.""

Depravedness

Depreciating

Derealization

Derivative

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

Adjective (-ic)

I got collar made out of skin

Their "skin game" is legitimate

The removal of salt (especially from sea water); the act or process of desalinating.

Desegregation

Desirability

Desolateness

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

""SPIRITUALIZE To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Detachedness

Detailedness

Deterioration

Determination

Determinative

The quality or state of being detestable.

Detonability

Process of removing poisons

Deuteragonist

Dexamethasone

Turning clockwise

Diabetologist

Diabolical

DIACHRONIC

DIAGENETIC

Diagnostical

Diagnostician

Able to be diagonalized; -- of a matrix.

""DIAGRAMMATIC Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram.""

Dialectology

The study of dialects.

Bearing or yielding diamonds.

Diaphanous

DIASTEREOMER

Diazotization

English word

Dieffenbachia

Dieselization

Possessing a differential coefficient or derivative; -- of a mathematical expression.

In the way of differentiation.

Distinguished

Differentiate

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics an instrument used in studying diffraction, as in the determination of crystal structure by diffraction of X-rays""

Measurement related

The administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders.

Dilatability

Dilatoriness

Motion-sickness preventive

DIMENSIONAL Pertaining to dimension.

""A member of the Dinoflagellata, chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella. The dinoflagellates form a chief constituent of plankton.Dinoflagellata, chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella. The dinoflagellates form a chief constituent of plankton.""

Diphenylamine

Tactful friend in a fray (wordplay)

The property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to signal arriving from one direction than from another.

""An enzyme, such as invertase or lactase, that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides to monosaccharides.""

Disaccustom

""Inflected form of ADVANTAGING Inflected form of ADVANTAGE Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.""

""Inflected form of AFFILIATING Inflected form of AFFILIATE To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.""

AFFILIATION Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

Disaffirmance

Inflected form of AGGREGATING Inflected form of AGGREGATE To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. \'bdThe aggregated soil.\'b8aggregated soil.\'b8

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

AGGREGATIVE Taken together; collective.

DISAMBIGUATE

Removal of uncertainty of meaning

Extinctions

""DISAPPOINTED Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope. as, a disappointed person or hope.""

CID officer's job leads to frustration

Day one's date is a letdown

Letdown (skin)

Intense moral disapproval

In a disapproving manner.

I rang tradesmen after confusion and disorder

""ARTICULATED United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton. as, an articulated skeleton.""

Disarticulate

""Inflected form of ASSOCIATING Inflected form of ASSOCIATE To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . as, to associate others with .""

Separation from princess's union

Disconnection, separation

Separation

One keeping strict control

One who exercises firm control

Martinet

Disciplinary

""DISCIPLINE The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.""

DISCOGRAPHIC

Stains

Cause confusion in performing acid blues to mob

Bale out distraught after dance with doctor, upset

Rebuilding a bomb site could be confusing

Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.

Very sadly put record on so recently

Dejection; grief.

Diction's modified by subtle difference in end

Hold suggestion after party receives cash

Incandescent with rage? That hides most of our shame

Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.

Persuasion (against an action)

That which disheartens

Come in, Ted: 3 will destroy inhibition

Discouraging

Showing good judgement

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's "The Sneetches"

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's 'The Sneetches'

With record margin, one people showing good judgment

Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic.

Discriminator

Like Jim Crow laws

Showing prejudice

Edge in a politician with record showing bias

Disdainful

The act of disembarking.

Disembarrass

Disembarrass

Process of becoming disillusioned

Lack of faith

End tennis match broken showing loss of enthusiasm

Prevent one from making their mark in the election

(v.) to revoke the license of a business operator

Shires financed unfairly, put beyond the possibility of democratic participation

Disengagement

Disenthrall

""EQUILIBRATE To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.""

Disestablish

Disestablish

Inflected form of FRANCHISING Inflected form of FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

""Inflected form of HARMONIZING Inflected form of HARMONIZE To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize. as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.""

Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

Reluctance (to do something)

Hell at home: Eastwood embracing a cowgirl showing new reluctance

INFESTATION The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance.

Girl's part of a dancing set-up? That's a lie

Inner cities had become disorderly, getting cut off

INTEGRATING the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.