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15-letter words containing d, i, p, n, e, l

  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
  • duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
  • encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
  • endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
  • epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
  • epsilon squared — (jargon)   A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
  • expulsion order — a legal document ordering someone's expulsion
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
  • high-principled — possessing or displaying very high moral or ethical principles
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
  • hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
  • hypolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C, with the final on F.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
  • indian elephant — See under elephant.
  • indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
  • interdependable — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
  • jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • lead-pipe cinch — an absolute certainty: It's a lead-pipe cinch they'll be there.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • limited partner — special partner.
  • line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
  • lynden pindling — Lynden Oscar ("Father of the Bahamas") 1930–2000, Bahamian political leader: first prime minister 1967–92.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
  • mental handicap — learning disability
  • methylphenidate — a central nervous system stimulant, C 1 4 H 1 9 NO 2 , used in the control of hyperkinetic syndromes and narcolepsy.
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
  • multidiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • napoleonic code — Code Napoléon
  • nil desperandum — never despair
  • non-capitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
  • non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
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