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15-letter words containing d, i, s, c, o, r

  • cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
  • 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.
  • decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
  • decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
  • democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
  • dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
  • descriptionless — Without a description.
  • desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
  • 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.
  • desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
  • detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
  • dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
  • dielectric loss — the loss of power in a dielectric caused by the loss of energy in the form of heat generated by an electric field.
  • diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
  • direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
  • direct question — interrogative sentence
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • discoordination — Impaired coordination.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
  • dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • disk controller — (hardware, storage)   (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
  • dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
  • distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
  • distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • doctor's office — doctor's surgery
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • dysmorphophobic — relating to or affected with dysmorphophobia
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • editio princeps — first edition.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
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