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15-letter words containing d, e, p, r

  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • lodgepole creek — a river in SE Wyoming, SW Nebraska, and NE Colorado, flowing E to the South Platte River. 212 miles (341 km) long.
  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • malappropriated — misused or mishandled
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • massed practice — learning with no intervals or short intervals between successive bouts of learning
  • mastoid process — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
  • mermaid's purse — the horny or leathery egg case of certain cartilaginous fishes, as skates.
  • metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • misappropriated — to put to a wrong use.
  • miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
  • misproportioned — Having incorrect or distorted proportions.
  • modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
  • modulo operator — (mathematics)   (mod) The operator that returns the remainder after integer division of its first argument by its second. Written as "%" in C and some other languages. Where the second argument is a power of two, the result can be calculated much more quickly using bitwise and with the appropriate bit-mask.
  • moral turpitude — conduct that is regarded as immoral.
  • morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
  • mouse droppings — 1.   (graphics, operating system, jargon)   Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2.   (web, jargon)   The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
  • mustard plaster — a black mixture of mustard and rubber placed on a cloth and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
  • neurodepressive — (of a drug) depressing nerve-cell function.
  • nil desperandum — never despair
  • non-compromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
  • non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
  • non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • non-interrupted — having an irregular or discontinuous arrangement, as of leaflets along a stem.
  • non-repudiation — the act of repudiating.
  • noncomputerized — not computerized or controlled by computers
  • nondepartmental — not limited to or related to a specific department
  • nonincorporated — Not incorporated.
  • nonprecedential — Not precedential.
  • nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
  • nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
  • nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
  • odd permutation — a permutation of a set of n elements, x 1 , x 2 , …, xn, which permutes the product of all differences of the form (xi – xj), where i is less than j, into the negative of the product.
  • olbers' paradox — the paradox that if the universe consisted of an infinite number of stars equally distributed through space, then every line of sight would come from a star and the night sky would glow uniformly, which is observationally not true.
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • operationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalize.
  • ordered n-tuple — a set of n objects or quantities, where n is an integer, especially such a set arranged in a specified order (ordered n-tuple)
  • ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
  • orphaned i-node — (operating system)   /or'f*nd i:'nohd/ [Unix] 1. A file that retains storage but no longer appears in the directories of a file system.
  • orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
  • orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner
  • outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
  • over-privileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
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