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15-letter words containing a, d, m, i, r

  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
  • codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
  • commercial code — a telegraphic code designed to convey a message with a minimum number of words and thereby reduce toll costs.
  • committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
  • commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
  • common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • comrade in arms — a fellow soldier.
  • comrade-in-arms — A comrade-in-arms is someone who has worked for the same cause or purpose as you and has shared the same difficulties and dangers.
  • contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
  • creme de cassis — a sweet, purplish-red liqueur flavored with black currants
  • creme de fraise — a liqueur flavored principally with strawberries.
  • criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
  • criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
  • dairy ice cream — ice cream made from milk rather than artificial ingredients
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
  • decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
  • decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
  • deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
  • defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
  • deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
  • dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
  • demi-vegetarian — a person who eats poultry and fish, but no red meat
  • demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
  • democratization — The introduction of democracy, its functions or principles, to an area or country which did not have democracy previously.
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • demonstrational — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
  • demonstratively — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
  • denormalization — to make normal.
  • departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
  • departmentalize — to organize into departments, esp excessively
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • dermatomyositis — a chronic medical condition characterized by inflammation of muscles (myositis), accompanied by a skin rash
  • dermatophytosis — a fungal infection of the skin, esp the feet
  • determinability — the quality of being determinable
  • determinateness — The state or quality of being determinate.
  • dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
  • diaheliotropism — the tendency among plants to respond to the light of the sun by orienting their leaves perpendicular to the sun's rays, such that the upper surface of the leaves receives maximum light
  • diaphototropism — growth of a plant or plant part in a direction transverse to that of the light
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