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

""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.

Decomposition

COMPRESSIONS compression

Decrepitation

Demultiplexer

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.""

Inflected form of POLITICIZING Inflected form of POLITICIZE

""Inflected form of POLYMERIZING Inflected form of POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Depravedness

Depreciating

Inflected form of PRESSURIZING Inflected form of PRESSURIZE

Adjective (-ic)

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.""

Despiteful

Diaphanous

Dinitrophenol

Diphenylamine

""DIPHTHONGIZE To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.""

Tactful friend in a fray (wordplay)

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.

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

Disparagement

Not essential; unimportant: dispensable items of personal property.

""DISPENSATION The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.""

Dispensatory

Dispersive

Dispirited

POSSESSIONS possession

Disproportion

Disputatious

Not respectable; disreputable.

Disruptive

Dissipated

""Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. as, the distemperature of the air.""

Dodecaphonist

DOLICHOCEPHAL

DOUBLESPEAKER doublespeak

Draftsmanship

Drapeability

Dryopithecine