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15-letter words containing d, t, l, s

  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • epidemiologists — Plural form of epidemiologist.
  • extended pascal — A superset of ANSI and ISO Pascal with many enhancements, including modules, separate compilation, type schemata, variable-length strings, direct-access files, complex numbers, initial values, constant expressions. ANSI/IEEE770X3.160-1989 and ISO 10206.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • false decretals — the Pseudo-Isidorian documents.
  • fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
  • field intensity — the vector sum of all forces exerted by a field on a unit mass, unit charge, unit magnetic pole, etc., at a given point within the field.
  • fight windmills — to fight imaginary evils or opponents
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • first world war — World War I.
  • fit as a fiddle — a musical instrument of the viol family.
  • fixed satellite — a satellite in a geostationary orbit
  • flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • floating island — a dessert consisting of boiled custard with portions of meringue, whipped cream, or whipped egg whites and sometimes jelly floating upon it or around it.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • floods of tears — If you say that someone was in floods of tears or in a flood of tears, you are emphasizing that they were crying with great intensity because they were very upset.
  • fluoridationist — One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
  • follow-up study — a second study made as a follow-up to an initial study
  • food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
  • fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
  • fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
  • gallant soldier — a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • gardening tools — tools used for gardening, such as a trowel, spade, rake, etc
  • gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • general studies — a school subject that includes a variety of skills and topics (such as comprehension, and current affairs, which may complement the study of A-levels in specific subjects)
  • get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
  • gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • girdle traverse — a climb that consists of a complete traverse of a face or crag
  • glucocorticoids — Plural form of glucocorticoid.
  • go into details — If someone does not go into details about a subject, or does not go into the detail, they mention it without explaining it fully or properly.
  • gödel's theorem — either of two theorems published by the mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931 that prove all mathematical systems are incomplete in that their truth or consistency can only be proved using a system of a higher order
  • gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • grandstand play — an ostentatious play, as in a sport, overemphasized deliberately to elicit applause from spectators.
  • greenfield site — a site located in a rural area which has not previously been built on
  • griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
  • griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
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