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15-letter words containing d, o, l, m, e

  • deal someone in — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
  • deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • delsarte method — a theory or system devised by François Delsarte for improving musical and dramatic expression through the mastery of various bodily attitudes and gestures.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • demolition bomb — a bomb containing a relatively large charge, used especially to destroy structures.
  • demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
  • demolition zone — an area consisting of buildings marked for demolition
  • 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.
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • demutualization — Demutualization is a situation in which a mutually owned company such as an insurance company changes into a public company that issues stock.
  • demythologizing — Present participle of demythologize.
  • denormalization — to make normal.
  • deoxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • developmentally — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
  • 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
  • diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
  • dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
  • diomede islands — two small islands in the Bering Strait, separated by the international date line and by the boundary line between the US and Russia
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
  • dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
  • 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.
  • down the middle — If you divide or split something down the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • early admission — a plan for admission to colleges in the US, in which students apply to colleges earlier in the year than is customary and receive their results earlier too
  • east longmeadow — a city in SW Massachusetts.
  • eddington limit — the theoretical upper limit of luminosity that a star of a given mass can reach; occurs when the outward force of the radiation just balances the inward gravitational force
  • edmund randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
  • edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
  • endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
  • endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • epidemiological — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
  • epidemiologists — Plural form of epidemiologist.
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
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