15-letter words containing i, d, e, n, t
- dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
- 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
- down the middle — If you divide or split something down the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- 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
- 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.
- duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
- duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
- 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.
- dye sensitizing — the producing of panchromatic or orthochromatic film by treating it with an emulsion containing dyes that absorb light of all or certain colors.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- easter islander — a native or inhabitant of Easter Island
- eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
- eating disorder — any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- 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
- eddystone light — lighthouse on dangerous rocks (Eddystone Rocks) just off the SE coast of Cornwall, in the English Channel
- edict of nantes — a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
- editio princeps — first edition.
- edition binding — a decorative binding for books, often of leather or simulated leather.
- editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
- edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- elections judge — someone who oversees an election
- electric needle — a surgical instrument for cutting tissue by the application of a high-frequency current
- electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
- encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
- endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
- endonucleolytic — relating to endonuclease
- enteropeptidase — Enterokinase.
- ethylenediamine — A viscous liquid used in making detergents and emulsifying agents.
- expeditiousness — The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
- expiration date — when food product is no longer fresh
- extended family — relatives
- extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
- extraordinaries — things that exceed the usual order, kind, or method
- extraordinarily — In an extraordinary manner.
- faint-heartedly — nervously
- feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
- 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.
- field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis