15-letter words containing c, r, i
- disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- disulfuric acid — pyrosulfuric acid
- 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.
- 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
- dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- 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.
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
- driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
- drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- duchesse brisee — See under duchesse.
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
- dynamic pricing — the practice of offering goods at a price that changes according to the level of demand, the type of customer, the state of the weather, etc
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- dysmorphophobic — relating to or affected with dysmorphophobia
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- 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.
- echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
- echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
- econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
- economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
- editio princeps — first edition.
- editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
- egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
- 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 charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.