15-letter words containing d, e, t, a, i, l
- over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
- overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
- overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
- partial denture — an artificial replacement of one or several of the teeth (partial denture) or all of the teeth (full denture) of either or both jaws; dental prosthesis.
- payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
- pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
- pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
- pleasant island — former name of Nauru.
- pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
- point d'alencon — Alençon lace (def 1).
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
- predicate logic — (logic) (Or "predicate calculus") An extension of propositional logic with separate symbols for predicates, subjects, and quantifiers. For example, where propositional logic might assign a single symbol P to the proposition "All men are mortal", predicate logic can define the predicate M(x) which asserts that the subject, x, is mortal and bind x with the universal quantifier ("For all"): All x . M(x) Higher-order predicate logic allows predicates to be the subjects of other predicates.
- prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
- pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
- radial symmetry — a basic body plan in which the organism can be divided into similar halves by passing a plane at any angle along a central axis, characteristic of sessile and bottom-dwelling animals, as the sea anemone and starfish.
- radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
- radiator grille — a grille in an automobile or the like for air cooling of the liquid in the cooling system.
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiometrically — using a radiometric method, in terms of radiometry
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- radiotelemetric — of or relating to radiotelemetry
- raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
- redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- registered mail — prepaid first-class mail that has been recorded at a post office prior to delivery for safeguarding against loss, theft, or damage during transmission.
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- relational dbms — relational database
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.