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15-letter words containing a, e, r, o, d, y

  • dvorak keyboard — a keyboard designed to facilitate typing speed by having the most frequently used characters on the home row, with all the vowels on the left side.
  • early admission — a plan for admission to colleges in the US, in which students apply to colleges earlier in the year than is customary and receive their results earlier too
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodialytic — Relating to electrodialysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • eric s. raymond — (person)   One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
  • errand of mercy — a trip undertaken to help someone who is in trouble
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • expanded memory — (storage)   Memory used through EMS. In systems based on Intel 80386 or later processor expanded memory is part of the extended memory that is mapped into the expanded memory page frame by the processor. The mapping is controlled by the EMM. In earlier systems, a dedicated EMS hardware adaptor is needed to map memory into the page frame. In both cases, an appropriate device driver is needed for the proper communication between hardware and EMM.
  • extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
  • extraordinarily — In an extraordinary manner.
  • fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
  • fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • federal holiday — a day which is a national holiday at the behest of the Federal Government
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grey propaganda — propaganda that does not identify its source
  • have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • hexahydrothymol — menthol.
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
  • hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
  • hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
  • hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hyperlipoidemia — An abnormally high level of lipoids in the blood.
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • hypodorian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
  • incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
  • inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
  • indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
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