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15-letter words containing c, i, r, e, n, s

  • discernibleness — The state or quality of being discernible.
  • disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • disenfranchised — to disfranchise.
  • disenfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenfranchise.
  • disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • disk controller — (hardware, storage)   (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
  • early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
  • economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
  • editio princeps — first edition.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
  • electron optics — the study and use of beams of electrons and of their deflection and focusing by electric and magnetic fields
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
  • eric conspiracy — (person, humour)   A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
  • 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]>
  • eta abstraction — eta conversion
  • ethnocentricism — Ethnocentrism.
  • ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
  • excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
  • excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
  • existence proof — non-constructive proof
  • expressionistic — Expressionist.
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • extrinsicalness — Quality of being extrinsical.
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • facile princeps — an obvious leader
  • fire resistance — the amount of resistance of a material or construction to fire.
  • first principle — any axiom, law, or abstraction assumed and regarded as representing the highest possible degree of generalization.
  • fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
  • fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
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