15-letter words containing d, e, t, o, r
- hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
- ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
- ichthyodorylite — a fossilised fish-spine
- identity theory — a form of materialism which holds mental states to be identical with certain states of the brain and so to have no separate existence, but regards this identity as contingent so that mentalistic and physicalistic language are not held to be synonymous
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- 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.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- 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.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
- 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.
- industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
- inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- intercorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- interior design — the design and coordination of the decorative elements of the interior of a house, apartment, office, or other structural space, including color schemes, fittings, furnishings, and sometimes architectural features.
- intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
- internucleotide — occurring or existing between nucleotides
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- 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.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- irvine dataflow — (language) (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
- isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
- 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.
- keynote address — a speech, as at a political convention, that presents important issues, principles, policies, etc.
- kidasa software — (company) A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
- kronecker delta — a function of two variables, i and j, which equals 1 when the variables have the same value, i = j, and equals 0 when the variables have different values, i ≠ j.
- lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
- leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
- 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.
- lepidopterology — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.