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16-letter words containing i, d, r, s

  • direct discourse — quotation of a speaker in which the speaker's exact words are repeated.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • direction cosine — the cosine of the angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
  • director's chair — a lightweight folding armchair with transversely crossed legs and having a canvas seat and back panel, as traditionally used by motion-picture directors.
  • disaccreditation — to take away the accreditation or authorization of: to disaccredit a diplomat.
  • disagreeableness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being disagreeable.
  • disappearing act — magic trick
  • discharging arch — an arch for taking some of the weight from a structural member beneath it.
  • discographically — In terms of discography.
  • disconcertedness — The characteristic of being disconcerted.
  • discourteousness — The state or quality of being discourteous.
  • discovered check — a check that is effected by moving an intervening piece from the line of attack of a queen, rook, or bishop.
  • discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
  • discriminability — The condition of being discriminable.
  • discriminatingly — With discrimination.
  • discriminatorily — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • discussion board — a website or section of a website that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages: You should post your questions on a parenting message board and get support from other parents.
  • discussion group — group assembled to discuss sth
  • disembarrassment — Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
  • disenfranchising — Present participle of disenfranchise.
  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disfranchisement — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
  • dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
  • disincorporation — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • disorderly house — a house of prostitution; brothel.
  • 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
  • dispersive power — a measure of the ability of a substance to disperse light, equal to the quotient of the difference in refractive indices of the substance for two representative wavelengths divided by the difference of the refractive index for an intermediate wavelength and 1.
  • displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
  • display standard — (hardware, standard)   IBM and others have introduced a bewildering plethora of graphics and text display standards for IBM PCs. The standards are mostly implemented by plugging in a video display board (or "graphics adaptor") and connecting the appropriate monitor to it. Each new standard subsumes its predecessors. For example, an EGA board can also do CGA and MDA. With the PS/2, IBM introduced the VGA standard and built it into the main system board motherboard. VGA is also available as a plug-in board for PCs from third-party vendors. Also with the PS/2, IBM introduced the 8514 high-resolution graphics standard. An 8514 adaptor board plugs into the PS/2, providing a dual-monitor capability. Graphics software had to support the major IBM graphics standards and many non-IBM, proprietary standards for displays. Either software vendors provided display drivers or display vendors provided drivers for the software package. In either case, switching software or switching display systems was fraught with compatibility problems. More colours are available from third-party vendors for some display types. See also MDA, CGA, EGA, PGA, Hercules, MCGA, VGA, SVGA, 8514, VESA.
  • display terminal — Visual Display Unit
  • disproportionate — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
  • disproportioning — Present participle of disproportion.
  • disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
  • distributed term — a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked
  • distributionally — In a distributional manner.
  • distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
  • district council — the local ruling body of an urban or rural district.
  • district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
  • distrito federal — Federal District. Abbreviation: D.F.
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
  • dneprodzerzhinsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
  • do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
  • do-it-yourselfer — an advocate or enthusiast of do-it-yourself
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • domestic service — the work of household servants
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