15-letter words containing i, r
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
- derequisitioned — Simple past tense and past participle of derequisition.
- derhotacization — A distortion in (or an Inability to pronounce) the sound of letter R, causing the R to be omitted as a consonant or changing /\u025d/ or /\u025a/ to /\u025c/,/\u0259/, or another vowel if a vocalic.
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
- dermatomyositis — a chronic medical condition characterized by inflammation of muscles (myositis), accompanied by a skin rash
- dermatophytosis — a fungal infection of the skin, esp the feet
- desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
- describableness — The quality of being describable.
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- deserialization — The act or process of deserializing.
- desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
- design recovery — (process) A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
- designated area — specified
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
- destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
- detached retina — a retina that is separated from the choroid layer of the eyeball to which it is normally attached, resulting in loss of vision in the affected part
- detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- determinability — the quality of being determinable
- determinateness — The state or quality of being determinate.
- detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
- detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
- deuterium oxide — heavy water.
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
- deutsches reich — former German name of Germany.
- devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
- dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
- diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
- 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
- diastereoisomer — a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer
- diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
- dichlorobenzene — any of a group of three insoluble isomeric chemical compounds used in solvents, insecticides, and dyes
- dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
- dichroic filter — an optical colour filter operating on the principle of wave interference between closely spaced reflecting surfaces, rather than by colour absorption
- dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
- dielectric lens — a lens constructed of a material that converges or diverges a beam of electromagnetic radiation of radio frequency
- dielectric loss — the loss of power in a dielectric caused by the loss of energy in the form of heat generated by an electric field.
- diesel-electric — having an electric motor powered directly by an electric generator or by batteries charged by the generator, with the generator being driven by a diesel engine: a diesel-electric locomotive.
- difference ring — a ring whose elements are cosets with respect to a given ideal.
- differentiating — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
- differentiation — Biology. the process by which cells or tissues change from relatively generalized to specialized kinds, during development.
- differentiative — That differentiates, or causes differentiation.
- differentiators — Plural form of differentiator.