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

Daredeviltry

Debonairness

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.""

COLORIZATION

COMPRESSIONS compression

""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.

Deconstruct

Method of critical analysis of literary texts

Label that released hits by M-People, Kylie Minogue etc.

Deconstruct

Deconstructor

""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

Decorousness

Decortication

Decrepitation

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

Decriminalize

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

Defervescence

FIBRILLATING fibrillate

FIBRILLATION The state of being reduced to fibers.

They shock and bestir frail old rebels

Defibrination

Deforestation

Degeneracy.

Degranulation

Dehydrogenase

Inflected form of HYDROGENATED Inflected form of HYDROGENATE To hydrogenize.

Dehydrogenate

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""

""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)

The way our country is run

By popular vote

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

Demultiplexer

""MYTHOLOGIZER One who, or that which, mythologizes.""

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

Densitometry

Inflected form of NUCLEARIZING Inflected form of NUCLEARIZE

NUMERABILITY

Deodorization

Daydream (wordplay)

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

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

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

Depersonalize

State of being deplorable.

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

""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

Derealization

Derisiveness

Derivative

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

Adjective (-ic)

I got collar made out of skin

Their "skin game" is legitimate

Desegregation

Deservedness

Desirability

Desirousness

""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.""

One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.

Deterioration

Determination

Determinative

Determined

Deuteragonist

Turning clockwise

DIACHRONIC

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

Bearing or yielding diamonds.

DIASTEREOMER

English word

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

Digressive

Dilatoriness

Motion-sickness preventive

""Any of three isomeric compounds, C 6 H 4 (NO 2 ) 2 , made from a mixture of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and heated benzene and used in celluloid manufacture, in dyes, and in organic synthesis.""

Dinitrophenol

Directedness

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.""

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.

Extinctions

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

Disburdenment

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

Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.

Noun (-ment)

Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.

Persuasion (against an action)

That which disheartens

Come in, Ted: 3 will destroy inhibition

Discouraging

Discourteous

Discreetness

Discreteness

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

Discursive

The act of disembarking.

Disembarrass

Disembarrass

Disencumber

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

Disenthrall

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

EQUILIBRIUM Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

Evidence of harm dubious if string used to bind me

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

""The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.""

Dissatisfied anger

""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.

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.

Process of breaking up

Breaking up rioting detains reprobate

INTEGRATIVE tending to combine and coordinate diverse elements into a whole.

Disintegrator

Uninteresting.

Dismemberment

Disordered

Chaos caused by woman's dictates about poetry

Confusion may be brought about by one's riddles, sir

Confusing

Sense of confusion

Disparagement

Dispensatory

Dispersive

Dispirited

Disproportion

Disremember

Not respectable; disreputable.

Disruptive

Relating to written work, American cutting production of Tristan and Isolde

Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.

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

Distributary

Of or pertaining to distribution.

By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.

DISTRIBUTIVE Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.

Plural or third person singular

""Inflammation of a diverticulum or of diverticula in the intestinal tract, causing fecal stagnation and pain.""

Plural or third person singular

A condition characterized by the presence of numerous diverticula in the colon.

Fun and games

Minor entertainment

Doctrinairism

Documentarian

Documentarist

Dolorousness

Dorsiventral

Dorsoventral

DOUBLESPEAKER doublespeak

Downwardness

Draftsmanship

Dramatisation

Dramatization

Drapeability

Dreadfulness

Dreamfulness