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15-letter words containing d, i, s, a, r

  • concession road — (esp in Ontario) one of a series of roads separating concessions in a township
  • considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
  • coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
  • credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
  • credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
  • creme de cassis — a sweet, purplish-red liqueur flavored with black currants
  • creme de fraise — a liqueur flavored principally with strawberries.
  • crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
  • crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
  • cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
  • cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
  • daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
  • daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
  • darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
  • dealer's choice — a card game, as poker, in which the dealer decides what particular game is to be played, often depending on the number of players, and designates any special variations or unusual rules, including setting the stakes.
  • decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
  • decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
  • degenerationist — a person who believes in the evolutionary decline of a species
  • deindustrialise — Alternative spelling of deindustrialize.
  • deindustrialize — to reduce the importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of (a nation or area)
  • demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
  • democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • demonstrational — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
  • demonstratively — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
  • depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
  • 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
  • describableness — The quality of being describable.
  • 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.
  • designated area — specified
  • desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • determinateness — The state or quality of being determinate.
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
  • 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
  • diaphototropism — growth of a plant or plant part in a direction transverse to that of the light
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