15-letter words containing c, i, s, t, e, r
- deutsches reich — former German name of Germany.
- dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
- dielectric lens — a lens constructed of a material that converges or diverges a beam of electromagnetic radiation of radio frequency
- dielectric loss — the loss of power in a dielectric caused by the loss of energy in the form of heat generated by an electric field.
- diesel-electric — having an electric motor powered directly by an electric generator or by batteries charged by the generator, with the generator being driven by a diesel engine: a diesel-electric locomotive.
- diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
- digestive tract — alimentary canal
- direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
- direct question — interrogative sentence
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- distance runner — a participant in distance races.
- distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- doctor's office — doctor's surgery
- doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- 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
- electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
- electric socket — a device on a wall where you can plug electrical equipment into the electricity supply
- electric system — An electric system consists of all of the elements needed to distribute electrical power, including overhead and underground lines, poles, transformers, and other equipment.
- electro-osmosis — movement of liquid through a capillary tube or membrane under the influence of an electric field: used in controlling rising damp
- electro-osmotic — relating to electro-osmosis
- electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
- electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
- electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
- electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
- 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
- electrophoresis — The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field.
- electropositive — Electrically positive.
- electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
- electrothermics — the study of electricity and heat, or of electrically generated heat