15-letter words containing d, r, a, m, t
- domain maturity — (systems analysis) The level of stability and depth of understanding that has been achieved in an area for which applications are developed.
- domain squatter — (web) An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
- dominical altar — a high altar.
- domitae naturae — (of animals) tamed or domesticated (distinguished from ferae naturae).
- draft-mule work — drudgery
- dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- elder statesman — experienced, respected figure
- electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
- enumerated type — (programming) (Or "enumeration") A type which includes in its definition an exhaustive list of possible values for variables of that type. Common examples include Boolean, which takes values from the list [true, false], and day-of-week which takes values [Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday]. Enumerated types are a feature of strongly typed languages, including C and Ada. Characters, (fixed-size) integers and even floating-point types could be (but are not usually) considered to be (large) enumerated types.
- ergatandromorph — an ant with the characteristics of both worker and male
- eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
- evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
- fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- fire department — the department of a municipal government charged with the prevention and extinguishing of fire.
- first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
- flame retardant — a compound used in cloth and plastic material to raise the ignition point of the material, thus making it resistant to fire.
- flame-retardant — Flame-retardant is the same as fire-retardant.
- formation dance — any dance in which a number of couples form a certain arrangement, such as two facing lines or a circle, and perform a series of figures within or based on that arrangement
- formation fluid — Formation fluid is fluid in the pores (=tiny holes) of a rock.
- freshwater drum — an edible drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, of the fresh waters of North and Central America, sometimes reaching a weight of 60 pounds (27 kg).
- from day to day — between one day and the next
- gamma radiation — a photon of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (gamma radiation) emitted from an atomic nucleus.
- gotterdammerung — German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”.
- guru meditation — (operating system) The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
- hard mint candy — a hardened mint-flavoured sweet
- haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
- heart tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
- hearth and home — domestic realm
- hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
- hereditarianism — a person who believes that differences between individuals or groups, including moral and intellectual attributes, are predominantly determined by genetic factors (opposed to environmentalist).
- hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hexahydrothymol — menthol.
- hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
- hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
- identity matrix — a matrix that has 1 in each position on the main diagonal and 0 in all other positions.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunomodulator — a substance that affects the functioning of the immune system
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- indeterminately — not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
- indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
- indirect demand — the secondary demand for labour, raw materials, premises etc which arises from the direct demand for goods