15-letter words containing d, r, y, i
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contradictorily — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
- correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
- cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
- cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
- cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
- current density — the ratio of the electric current flowing at a particular point in a conductor to the cross-sectional area of the conductor taken perpendicular to the current flow at that point. It is measured in amperes per square metre
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
- dairy ice cream — ice cream made from milk rather than artificial ingredients
- data dictionary — an index of data held in a database and used to assist in the access to data
- data link layer — (networking) Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
- decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
- decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
- dehydrogenating — Present participle of dehydrogenate.
- dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
- delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
- delivery system — any means or process for conveying a product or service to a recipient.
- demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
- 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.
- dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
- density current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
- depletion layer — a region at the interface between dissimilar zones of conductivity in a semiconductor, in which there are few charge carriers
- deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- dermatomyositis — a chronic medical condition characterized by inflammation of muscles (myositis), accompanied by a skin rash
- dermatophytosis — a fungal infection of the skin, esp the feet
- 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.
- destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
- desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
- detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- determinability — the quality of being determinable
- diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
- diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
- dilatory motion — a formal proposal to be discussed and voted on in a debate whose effect is to interrupt the business under discussion at the time
- dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
- diphenhydramine — a white, crystalline, antihistaminic compound, C 17 H 21 NO, used orally, topically, and parenterally, especially for allergies.
- disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
- disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.