15-letter words containing d, e, m, o, n
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- code management — source code management
- codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
- combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
- come to no good — to come to a bad end; end in failure, trouble, etc.
- command economy — In a command economy, business activities and the use of resources are decided by the government, and not by market forces.
- commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
- common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
- common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
- compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
- completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
- complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
- compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
- comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- comrade in arms — a fellow soldier.
- comrade-in-arms — A comrade-in-arms is someone who has worked for the same cause or purpose as you and has shared the same difficulties and dangers.
- conductiometric — conductometric
- confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- cottonseed meal — the residue of cottonseed kernels from which oil has been extracted, used as fodder or fertilizer
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
- day of judgment — Judgment Day
- deadman's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- deal someone in — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
- decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
- decommissioning — the act of decommissioning something
- decommunization — the act or process of decommunizing
- decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
- decontaminating — Present participle of decontaminate.
- decontamination — to make (an object or area) safe for unprotected personnel by removing, neutralizing, or destroying any harmful substance, as radioactive material or poisonous gas.
- defining moment — a point at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, etc., is revealed or identified.
- 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.
- deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
- degree ceremony — a ceremony at which university degrees are awarded
- delmonico steak — club steak
- demagnetisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of demagnetization.
- demagnetization — The process of removing the magnetic field from an object.
- demassification — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
- democratization — The introduction of democracy, its functions or principles, to an area or country which did not have democracy previously.