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16-letter words containing e, n, s

  • dispersal prison — a prison organized and equipped to accommodate a proportion of the most dangerous and highest security risk prisoners
  • dispersing agent — a surface-active substance added to a suspension, usually a colloid, to improve the separation of particles and to prevent settling or clumping
  • displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
  • displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
  • display terminal — Visual Display Unit
  • disproportionate — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
  • disputatiousness — The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.
  • disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • distinguishments — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • dneprodzerzhinsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • do oneself proud — to do extremely well
  • do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
  • do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
  • domain selection — (systems analysis)   The prioritisation and selection of one or more domains for which specific software reuse engineering projects are to be initiated.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic science — home economics.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • dorr's rebellion — an insurrection in Rhode Island (1842) that grew out of dissatisfaction with the existing state constitution, which restricted suffrage to landholders or their eldest sons.
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • down one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
  • dree one's weird — to endure one's fate
  • dressing station — a post or center that gives first aid to the wounded, located near a combat area.
  • driver's license — a permit, as one issued by a state's motor vehicle bureau, that allows the holder to drive a motor vehicle on public roads.
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • ducks and drakes — Also, duck and drake. a pastime in which flat stones or shells are thrown across water so as to skip over the surface several times before sinking.
  • dunderheadedness — Stupidity.
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • dyer's greenweed — woadwaxen.
  • dyer's-greenweed — woadwaxen.
  • dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
  • earnings-related — An earnings-related payment or benefit provides higher or lower payments according to the amount a person was earning while working.
  • earth-shattering — earthshaking.
  • east los angeles — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • eastern european — relating to, situated in or coming from Eastern Europe
  • eastern kingbird — any of several American tyrant flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. tyrannus (eastern kingbird) of North America, known for their pugnacious disposition toward predators.
  • eastern orthodox — of or relating to the Orthodox Church.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • easy on the eyes — good looking, physically attractive
  • ebenezer scrooge — Ebenezer [eb-uh-nee-zer] /ˌɛb əˈni zər/ (Show IPA) a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' Christmas Carol.
  • ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
  • eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
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