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15-letter words containing d, i, o, e

  • deoxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
  • depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • depletion layer — a region at the interface between dissimilar zones of conductivity in a semiconductor, in which there are few charge carriers
  • deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
  • deprivatization — The act or process of deprivatizing.
  • deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • derequisitioned — Simple past tense and past participle of derequisition.
  • derhotacization — A distortion in (or an Inability to pronounce) the sound of letter R, causing the R to be omitted as a consonant or changing /\u025d/ or /\u025a/ to /\u025c/,/\u0259/, or another vowel if a vocalic.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • dermatomyositis — a chronic medical condition characterized by inflammation of muscles (myositis), accompanied by a skin rash
  • dermatophytosis — a fungal infection of the skin, esp the feet
  • desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
  • descending node — the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the south (opposed to ascending node).
  • descriptionless — Without a description.
  • desensitisation — The act or process of desensitising, of dulling or reducing sensation.
  • desensitization — the act or process of desensitizing.
  • deserialization — The act or process of deserializing.
  • desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
  • desexualization — The act or process of desexualizing.
  • design recovery — (process)   A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
  • desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
  • desocialization — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
  • despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
  • destabilisation — Alternative spelling of destabilization.
  • destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
  • detective novel — a novel in which a detective tries to solve a crime
  • detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
  • deuterium oxide — heavy water.
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
  • developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
  • devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
  • dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
  • dezincification — removal of zinc.
  • diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • diadochokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • diaheliotropism — the tendency among plants to respond to the light of the sun by orienting their leaves perpendicular to the sun's rays, such that the upper surface of the leaves receives maximum light
  • dialectological — Of or relating to dialectology.
  • diamine oxidase — an enzyme, occurring in the digestive system, that inactivates histamine by removal of its amino group
  • diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
  • diamond wedding — the 60th, or occasionally the 75th, anniversary of a marriage
  • diastereoisomer — a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer
  • dichlorobenzene — any of a group of three insoluble isomeric chemical compounds used in solvents, insecticides, and dyes
  • dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
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