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15-letter words containing i, n, d, u, s

  • deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
  • die standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
  • dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
  • direct question — interrogative sentence
  • disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
  • disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
  • disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • discontinuation — a breach or interruption of continuity or unity: Progress was delayed by repeated discontinuations of work.
  • discontinuities — Plural form of discontinuity.
  • discontinuously — In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discountenanced — Simple past tense and past participle of discountenance.
  • discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • disillusionised — Simple past tense and past participle of disillusionise.
  • disillusionized — Simple past tense and past participle of disillusionize.
  • disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • disquisitionary — of or relating to a disquisition
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • distastefulness — The state or quality of being distasteful or objectionable; causing averseness; unpleasantness.
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distressfulness — The state or quality of being distressful; the state of having or causing anxiety or strain.
  • distrustfulness — The state or quality of being distrustful or doubtful; distrust; mistrust.
  • dithionous acid — an unstable dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of dithionite salts. It is a powerful reducing agent. Formula: H2S2O4
  • do an injustice — If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you.
  • do the business — to achieve what is required
  • domain calculus — (database)   A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
  • 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/.
  • 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 in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
  • dual admissions — a system whereby students attaining less good marks than what is required are offered a place provided they successfully complete another course first to improve some aspect of their work
  • 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.
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • 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.
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • 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
  • english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
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