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15-letter words containing e, n, m

  • diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
  • diamond wedding — the 60th, or occasionally the 75th, anniversary of a marriage
  • dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
  • dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
  • dimension stone — quarried and squared stone 2 feet (0.6 meters) or more in length and width and of specified thickness.
  • dimethylaniline — a very toxic oily liquid used in industry to harden certain synthetic resins and as a solvent
  • dimethylbenzene — xylene.
  • dimethylmethane — propane.
  • 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
  • diphenhydramine — a white, crystalline, antihistaminic compound, C 17 H 21 NO, used orally, topically, and parenterally, especially for allergies.
  • disappointments — Plural form of disappointment.
  • discommissioned — Simple past tense and past participle of discommission.
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
  • disentanglement — Removal of, or extrication from twists, tangles, complications or confusion.
  • disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
  • disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • disintermediate — (business, banking, finance) To carry out disintermediation.
  • distance medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards (402 meters), the second runs 880 yards (805 meters), the third runs 1320 yards (1207 meters), and the fourth runs 1760 yards (1609 meters).
  • distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • divertissements — Plural form of divertissement.
  • do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • do someone dirt — to do something vicious to someone
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
  • 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/.
  • 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.
  • domitae naturae — (of animals) tamed or domesticated (distinguished from ferae naturae).
  • doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon
  • dorito syndrome — (humour)   Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. "I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I've got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome."
  • down the middle — If you divide or split something down the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.
  • down's syndrome — a genetic disorder, associated with the presence of an extra chromosome 21, characterized by mild to severe mental impairment, weak muscle tone, shorter stature, and a flattened facial profile.
  • dumbbell nebula — the planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, which in photographs appears to have the shape of a dumbbell.
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
  • 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.
  • eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
  • econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
  • economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • 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
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