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15-letter words containing i, p, r

  • descriptionless — Without a description.
  • descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • diaheliotropism — the tendency among plants to respond to the light of the sun by orienting their leaves perpendicular to the sun's rays, such that the upper surface of the leaves receives maximum light
  • diaphototropism — growth of a plant or plant part in a direction transverse to that of the light
  • diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
  • diphenhydramine — a white, crystalline, antihistaminic compound, C 17 H 21 NO, used orally, topically, and parenterally, especially for allergies.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
  • disciplinarians — Plural form of disciplinarian.
  • dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • disperse system — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
  • disproportional — not in proportion; disproportionate.
  • disproportioned — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
  • distributorship — a franchise held by a distributor.
  • dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
  • dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
  • dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
  • draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
  • drink deep (of) — to take in a large amount (of) by or as by drinking
  • drip irrigation — a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes.
  • drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
  • 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.
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • 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
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
  • dynamic pricing — the practice of offering goods at a price that changes according to the level of demand, the type of customer, the state of the weather, etc
  • dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
  • dysmorphophobic — relating to or affected with dysmorphophobia
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
  • e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
  • editio princeps — first edition.
  • edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • egyptian jasper — a type of jasper, generally with zones of colour, found in desert regions of Egypt
  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
  • electron optics — the study and use of beams of electrons and of their deflection and focusing by electric and magnetic fields
  • electrophoresis — The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field.
  • electrophoretic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by electrophoresis.
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