15-letter words containing d, e, a, c, o
- dictation speed — a speed of speaking that enables someone to take down what is being said
- dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
- diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
- diffractometric — Relating to diffractometry; measured using a diffractometer.
- 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.
- disaffectionate — not affectionate
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- discountenanced — Simple past tense and past participle of discountenance.
- discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- do an injustice — If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you.
- docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
- doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
- document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
- documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
- dodecanoic acid — lauric acid.
- dodecasyllables — Plural form of dodecasyllable.
- dolichocephalic — long-headed; having a cephalic index of 75 and under.
- domestic animal — an animal, as the horse or cat, that has been tamed and kept by humans as a work animal, food source, or pet, especially a member of those species that have, through selective breeding, become notably different from their wild ancestors.
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
- downward closed — closure
- dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- 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.
- edict of nantes — a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
- elaborated code — a way of talking which is explicit and does not assume that the listener shares the same assumptions and understandings as the speaker
- 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
- electra paradox — the supposed paradox that one may know something to be true of an object under one description but not another, as when Electra knew that Orestes was her brother but not that the man before her was her brother although he was Orestes. This shows the predicate "knows" to be intensional, that Electra's knowledge here is de dicto, and that the statement of it yields an opaque context
- electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
- electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
- electrodialytic — Relating to electrodialysis.
- electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
- eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
- encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
- endocannabinoid — An endogenous cannabinoid, that is one produced by the body.
- endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
- endocrine gland — anatomy: hormone-secreting gland
- endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
- epidemiological — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
- 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]>
- errand of mercy — a trip undertaken to help someone who is in trouble