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17-letter words containing d, i, a, m, o

  • change one's mind — to alter one's decision or opinion
  • chemopallidectomy — an operation for treating Parkinson's disease and certain other diseases characterized by muscular rigidity, consisting of destroying a specific part of the corpus striatum by injecting it with a chemical, usually alcohol.
  • chemoradiotherapy — (medicine) A combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy used to treat some cancers.
  • clicks and mortar — making use of traditional trading methods in conjunction with internet trading
  • clicks-and-mortar — pertaining to or denoting a company that does business on the Internet and in traditional stores or offices.
  • code of hammurabi — a Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier, instituted by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters.
  • codlins-and-cream — an onagraceous plant, Epilobium hirsutum, native to Europe and Asia and introduced into North America, having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves
  • come to handgrips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • comedie francaise — the French national theatre, founded in Paris in 1680
  • commercial credit — credit issued by a bank to a business to finance trading or manufacturing operations.
  • commodity markets — stock markets in which commodities are traded
  • compartmentalised — Simple past tense and past participle of compartmentalise.
  • compartmentalized — separated into several discrete areas
  • compass deviation — deviation (def 4).
  • compound fraction — complex fraction
  • compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
  • cook island māori — a dialect of Māori spoken in the Cook Islands
  • coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
  • credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
  • culpable homicide — manslaughter
  • d&o insurance — D&O insurance is a personal liability insurance that provides cover to the directors and senior executives of a company.
  • damage limitation — Damage limitation is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
  • damon and pythias — two friends noted for their mutual loyalty. Damon offered himself as a hostage for Pythias, who was to be executed for treason by Dionysius of Syracuse. When Pythias returned to save his friend's life, he was pardoned
  • dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
  • data flow diagram — (programming)   A graphical notation used to describe how data flows between processes in a system. Data flow diagrams are an important tool of most structured analysis techniques.
  • data transmission — the act of sending data electronically over a communications network
  • decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
  • decriminalization — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • defamiliarisation — (arts) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
  • defamiliarization — Art, Literature. a theory and technique, originating in the early 20th century, in which an artistic or literary work presents familiar objects or situations in an unfamiliar way, prolonging the perceptive process and allowing for a fresh perspective.
  • dematerialisation — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • dematerialization — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • demythologization — The act of demythologizing, or something demythologized.
  • dendroclimatology — The science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions.
  • denominate number — a number associated with a unit of measurement.
  • denominationalism — adherence to particular principles, esp to the tenets of a religious denomination; sectarianism
  • denominationalist — One imbued with a denominational spirit.
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • dextroamphetamine — a dextrorotatory amphetamine, used to suppress appetite
  • diatonic semitone — the pitch difference between certain adjacent degrees of the diatonic scale
  • dictionary-making — the work or activity of compiling dictionaries
  • dihydroergotamine — an ergot alkaloid, C 33 H 37 N 5 O 5 , used in the treatment of various types of migraine headache.
  • dimethylformamide — a colourless liquid widely used as a solvent and sometimes as a catalyst. Formula: (CH3)2NCHO
  • discomgoogolation — a feeling of anxiety felt by someone who is unable to access the internet
  • disintermediation — the act of removing funds from savings banks and placing them into short-term investments on which the interest-rate yields are higher.
  • dispensationalism — the interpreting of history as a series of divine dispensations.
  • disposable income — the part of a person's income remaining after deducting personal income taxes.
  • dna amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
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