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16-letter words containing d, i, s, o, r

  • bornholm disease — an epidemic virus infection characterized by pain round the base of the chest
  • borosilicic acid — any of several hypothetical acids that form borosilicates.
  • boundary dispute — dispute between neighbours about the boundary between their properties
  • british honduras — Belize
  • brood parasitism — a type of parasitism in which a bird (brood parasite), as a cowbird or European cuckoo, lays and abandons its eggs in the nest of another species
  • canadian soldier — the mayfly.
  • carbon bisulfide — carbon disulfide
  • carbon disulfide — a heavy, volatile, colorless liquid, CS2, highly flammable and poisonous, used as a solvent, insecticide, etc.
  • carboxypeptidase — any of several digestive enzymes that catalyze the removal of an amino acid from the end of a peptide chain having a free carbonyl group.
  • cardiac neurosis — an anxiety reaction characterized by quick fatigue, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, and other cardiac symptoms, but not caused by disease of the heart.
  • caroline islands — an archipelago of over 500 islands and islets in the W Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines, all of which are now part of the Federated States of Micronesia, except for the Palau group: formerly part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; centre of a typhoon zone. Area: (land) 1183 sq km (457 sq miles)
  • carrot and stick — If an organization has a carrot and stick approach or policy, they offer people things in order to persuade them to do something and punish them if they refuse to do it.
  • cash on delivery — If you pay for goods cash on delivery, you pay for them in cash when they are delivered. The abbreviation C.O.D. is also used.
  • casting director — the person in charge of choosing of actors for a production
  • chondrodysplasia — (medicine) A genetic disorder characterized by short-limbed dwarfism.
  • chytridiomycosis — An infectious disease of amphibians caused by the chytrid fungus.
  • clitoridectomies — Plural form of clitoridectomy.
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
  • coadministration — Joint administration.
  • colorado springs — a city and resort in central Colorado. Pop: 370 448 (2003 est)
  • combined honours — (in British education) a degree course that includes more than one subject
  • compressed video — video compression
  • computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
  • confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
  • confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • cordon sanitaire — a guarded line serving to cut off an infected area
  • core description — A core description is a summary of the information about a rock sample, found by core analysis.
  • corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
  • costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
  • cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  • counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
  • creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
  • cross one's mind — to occur to one briefly or suddenly
  • cross-validation — a process by which a method that works for one sample of a population is checked for validity by applying the method to another sample from the same population.
  • crossover bodice — a bodice which has one side crossing over the other
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • data abstraction — (data)   Any representation of data in which the implementation details are hidden (abstracted). Abstract data types and objects are the two primary forms of data abstraction.
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
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