15-letter words containing d, e, i, p, n
- duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
- dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
- duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
- duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- editio princeps — first edition.
- edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
- encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
- encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
- endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
- enteropeptidase — Enterokinase.
- epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
- epsilon squared — (jargon) A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
- expeditiousness — The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
- expiration date — when food product is no longer fresh
- expulsion order — a legal document ordering someone's expulsion
- finders keepers — whoever finds something has the right to keep it
- fire department — the department of a municipal government charged with the prevention and extinguishing of fire.
- fire water pond — A fire water pond is an area of water which is kept so it can be used if there is a fire.
- first responder — a person who is certified to provide medical care in emergencies before more highly trained medical personnel arrive on the scene: a firefighter trained as a first responder.
- food processing — transforming raw materials into food
- frederic chopin — Frédéric François [fred-uh-rik fran-swah,, fred-rik;; French frey-dey-reek frahn-swa] /ˈfrɛd ə rɪk frænˈswɑ,, ˈfrɛd rɪk;; French freɪ deɪˈrik frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1810–49, Polish composer and pianist, in France after 1831.
- furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
- gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
- gender-specific — for, characteristic of, or limited to either males or females: Left-handedness is not gender-specific.
- get the wind up — to become frightened
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
- green sandpiper — a species of sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, with a greenish back and wings
- greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
- high-dependency — needing or providing a more than usually high level of healthcare
- high-principled — possessing or displaying very high moral or ethical principles
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- hypersensitized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersensitize.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypodorian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.
- hypoionian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G, with the final on C.
- hypolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C, with the final on F.
- i don't suppose — You can say 'I don't suppose' as a way of introducing a polite request.
- identity hyphen — a hyphen separating different racial, national, or religious elements in a compound name describing a person of mixed heritage, as in Australian-Muslim
- identity papers — law: legal documents
- identity parade — law: police lineup