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15-letter words containing d, i, s, n, c, l

  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
  • descaling agent — something intended for use removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
  • describableness — The quality of being describable.
  • descriptionless — Without a description.
  • desocialization — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
  • dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
  • dielectric lens — a lens constructed of a material that converges or diverges a beam of electromagnetic radiation of radio frequency
  • disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • discernibleness — The state or quality of being discernible.
  • disciplinarians — Plural form of disciplinarian.
  • disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • discontinuously — In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • 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.
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • distance medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards (402 meters), the second runs 880 yards (805 meters), the third runs 1320 yards (1207 meters), and the fourth runs 1760 yards (1609 meters).
  • divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
  • divisional coin — a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
  • dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
  • domain calculus — (database)   A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
  • domestic animal — an animal, as the horse or cat, that has been tamed and kept by humans as a work animal, food source, or pet, especially a member of those species that have, through selective breeding, become notably different from their wild ancestors.
  • driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • 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
  • elections judge — someone who oversees an election
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
  • hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
  • identical twins — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
  • idiosyncratical — Alternative form of idiosyncratic.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
  • inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
  • incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
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