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15-letter words containing d, e, c, i, o, n

  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • identifications — Plural form of identification.
  • ill-conditioned — in a surly or bad mood, state, etc.
  • immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
  • in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
  • incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
  • inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
  • inconsideration — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
  • incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
  • indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
  • indian licorice — rosary pea.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indirect object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing with reference to which the action of a verb is performed, in English generally coming between the verb and the direct object and paraphrasable as the object of a preposition, usually to or for, following the direct object, as the boy in He gave the boy a book.
  • indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
  • infoword office — (tool)   A suite of applications for Unix including a word processor, spreadsheet and database.
  • injudiciousness — The state or condition of being injudicious.
  • intercorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
  • internucleotide — occurring or existing between nucleotides
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • knickerbockered — wearing knickers.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
  • linear collider — a particle accelerator in which two beams of particles are made to collide
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • media converter — (networking)   A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • medicine bottle — a small bottle used to hold medicine
  • melamine-coated — covered with an outer layer of melamine
  • microdissection — dissection performed under a microscope.
  • mid-ocean ridge — any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
  • miscommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscommunicate.
  • miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
  • mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
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