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15-letter words containing g, i, d, e, o

  • data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
  • de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
  • deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
  • decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
  • decommissioning — the act of decommissioning something
  • deconcentrating — Present participle of deconcentrate.
  • decontaminating — Present participle of decontaminate.
  • defining moment — a point at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, etc., is revealed or identified.
  • defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
  • degenerationist — a person who believes in the evolutionary decline of a species
  • deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
  • dehydrogenating — Present participle of dehydrogenate.
  • dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
  • delayed opening — the automatic opening of a parachute after a predetermined delay to allow the parachutist to reach a particular height
  • delaying action — a measure or measures taken to gain time, as when weaker military forces harass the advance of a superior enemy without coming to a pitched battle
  • demagnetisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of demagnetization.
  • demagnetization — The process of removing the magnetic field from an object.
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • demythologizing — Present participle of demythologize.
  • denationalizing — Present participle of denationalize.
  • deoxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
  • depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • descending node — the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the south (opposed to ascending node).
  • 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.
  • desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
  • developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
  • developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
  • dialectological — Of or relating to dialectology.
  • diamond wedding — the 60th, or occasionally the 75th, anniversary of a marriage
  • dinoflagellates — Plural form of dinoflagellate.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
  • disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
  • disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • disintegrations — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • dissolving view — an effect created by the projection of slides on a screen in such a way that each picture seems to dissolve into the succeeding one without an interval in between.
  • dogtooth violet — Also called adder's-tongue, trout lily. any of several North American lilies of the genus Erythronium, having nodding flowers and usually mottled leaves.
  • double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
  • double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
  • dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
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