15-letter words containing d, a, i, r, e
- criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
- criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
- critical period — a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards
- crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
- crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
- dairy ice cream — ice cream made from milk rather than artificial ingredients
- dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
- data link layer — (networking) Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- data protection — (in Britain) safeguards for individuals relating to personal data stored on a computer
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
- dead and buried — If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future.
- dead on arrival — dead before reaching hospital
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- dealer's choice — a card game, as poker, in which the dealer decides what particular game is to be played, often depending on the number of players, and designates any special variations or unusual rules, including setting the stakes.
- debureaucratize — to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
- decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- decertification — The act or process of decertifying.
- decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- deconcentrating — Present participle of deconcentrate.
- deconcentration — the act of decentralizing or the state of becoming less concentrated in one area
- decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
- deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- dedifferentiate — to undergo the process of dedifferentiation
- deerfield beach — a town in S Florida.
- deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
- defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
- degenerationist — a person who believes in the evolutionary decline of a species
- deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
- dehydrogenating — Present participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
- deindustrialise — Alternative spelling of deindustrialize.
- deindustrialize — to reduce the importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of (a nation or area)
- delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
- delta reduction — (theory) In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
- dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
- demi-vegetarian — a person who eats poultry and fish, but no red meat
- demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.