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15-letter words containing a, r, c, t

  • deconcentrating — Present participle of deconcentrate.
  • deconcentration — the act of decentralizing or the state of becoming less concentrated in one area
  • decorated style — a 14th-century style of English architecture characterized by the ogee arch, geometrical tracery, and floral decoration
  • decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • delta reduction — (theory)   In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
  • 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.
  • denitrification — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
  • derhotacization — A distortion in (or an Inability to pronounce) the sound of letter R, causing the R to be omitted as a consonant or changing /\u025d/ or /\u025a/ to /\u025c/,/\u0259/, or another vowel if a vocalic.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
  • desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
  • detached retina — a retina that is separated from the choroid layer of the eyeball to which it is normally attached, resulting in loss of vision in the affected part
  • devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
  • diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
  • dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
  • dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
  • diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
  • diffractometric — Relating to diffractometry; measured using a diffractometer.
  • digestive tract — alimentary canal
  • digital carrier — (hardware, communications)   A medium which can carry digital signals; broadly equivalent to the physical layer of the OSI seven layer model of networks. Carriers can be described as baseband or broadband. A baseband carrier can include direct current (DC), whereas broadband carriers are modulated by various methods into frequency bands which do not include DC. Sometimes a modem (modulator/demodulator) or codec (coder/decoder) combines several channels on one transmission path. The combining of channels is called multiplexing, and their separation is called demultiplexing, independent of whether a modem or codec bank is used. Modems can be associated with frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and codecs with time division multiplexing (TDM) though this grouping of concepts is somewhat arbitrary. If the medium of a carrier is copper telephone wire, the circuit may be called T1, T3, etc. as these designations originally described such. T1 carriers used a restored polar line coding scheme which allowed a baseband signal to be transported as broadband and restored to baseband at the receiver. T1 is not used in this sense today, and indeed it is often confused with the DS1 signal carried.
  • direct dialling — a service which allows telephone users to make international calls without operator assistance
  • direct taxation — Direct taxation is a system in which a government raises money by means of direct taxes.
  • direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
  • disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
  • discoordination — Impaired coordination.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
  • disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
  • dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • distractibility — inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another: a symptom of a variety of mental disorders, as manic disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety states.
  • distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
  • dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
  • dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • dominical altar — a high altar.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
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