15-letter words containing i, m, u, n, t
- current limiter — a device, as a resistor or fuse, that limits the flow of current to a prescribed amount, independent of the voltage applied.
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- decommunization — the act or process of decommunizing
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demutualization — Demutualization is a situation in which a mutually owned company such as an insurance company changes into a public company that issues stock.
- deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
- diamond cutting — the art or work of cutting and shaping rough diamonds to make them suitable for use by the jewellery trade
- dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
- disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
- domain maturity — (systems analysis) The level of stability and depth of understanding that has been achieved in an area for which applications are developed.
- 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/.
- domitae naturae — (of animals) tamed or domesticated (distinguished from ferae naturae).
- doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
- draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
- 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.
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- 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.
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
- enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
- enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
- entrepreneurism — Synonym of entrepreneurialism.
- equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- excommunicating — Present participle of excommunicate.
- excommunication — The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
- excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
- excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
- extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
- faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
- fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
- figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
- finite automata — Finite State Machine
- flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
- formation fluid — Formation fluid is fluid in the pores (=tiny holes) of a rock.
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- formularization — The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
- foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
- fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
- furniture mover — person: removal worker
- futilitarianism — The belief that all human activity is futile.
- fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
- gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.