15-letter words containing c, o, r, d, i, t
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
- detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
- 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
- dichroic filter — an optical colour filter operating on the principle of wave interference between closely spaced reflecting surfaces, rather than by colour absorption
- dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
- 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.
- diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
- diffractometric — Relating to diffractometry; measured using a diffractometer.
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
- direct question — interrogative sentence
- 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.
- disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
- disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
- disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
- discoordination — Impaired coordination.
- 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.
- discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
- dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
- 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.
- dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
- distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
- 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
- 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
- dominical altar — a high altar.
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
- drift indicator — an instrument that indicates the amount of drift of an aircraft.
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- editio princeps — first edition.
- editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
- 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