15-letter words containing a, t, e, n, d, r
- dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
- demi-vegetarian — a person who eats poultry and fish, but no red meat
- 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.
- 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.
- denitrification — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
- denormalization — to make normal.
- departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
- departmentalize — to organize into departments, esp excessively
- depletion layer — a region at the interface between dissimilar zones of conductivity in a semiconductor, in which there are few charge carriers
- deprivatization — The act or process of deprivatizing.
- 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.
- desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
- deserialization — The act or process of deserializing.
- desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
- designated area — specified
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- 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
- determinability — the quality of being determinable
- determinateness — The state or quality of being determinate.
- detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
- detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
- deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
- devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
- dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
- 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.
- differentiating — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
- differentiation — Biology. the process by which cells or tissues change from relatively generalized to specialized kinds, during development.
- differentiative — That differentiates, or causes differentiation.
- differentiators — Plural form of differentiator.
- 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.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
- dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
- disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
- disintegrations — the act or process of disintegrating.
- disintermediate — (business, banking, finance) To carry out disintermediation.
- disorientations — Plural form of disorientation.
- distance runner — a participant in distance races.
- distress signal — a signal used, or designed to be used, by persons in peril, for the purpose of summoning aid, indicating their position, etc., as a radio code sign, aerial flare, flag hoist, or the like. Compare distress call (def 1).
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.