15-letter words containing l, a, r, i
- dilatory motion — a formal proposal to be discussed and voted on in a debate whose effect is to interrupt the business under discussion at the time
- direct dialling — a service which allows telephone users to make international calls without operator assistance
- direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
- disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
- disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
- disaster relief — financial or physical help provided to people or areas hit by a disaster
- disciplinarians — Plural form of disciplinarian.
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
- disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
- disproportional — not in proportion; disproportionate.
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- dissimilarities — Plural form of dissimilarity.
- distilled water — water from which impurities, as dissolved salts and colloidal particles, have been removed by one or more processes of distillation; chemically pure water.
- distractibility — inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another: a symptom of a variety of mental disorders, as manic disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety states.
- distress signal — a signal used, or designed to be used, by persons in peril, for the purpose of summoning aid, indicating their position, etc., as a radio code sign, aerial flare, flag hoist, or the like. Compare distress call (def 1).
- disulfuric acid — pyrosulfuric acid
- dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
- divide and rule — You use divide and rule to refer to a policy which is intended to keep someone in a position of power by causing disagreements between people who might otherwise unite against them.
- doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
- dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
- dominical altar — a high altar.
- dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
- dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- 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 integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
- dryland farming — a mode of farming, practiced in regions of slight or insufficient rainfall, that relies mainly on tillage methods rendering the soil more receptive of moisture and on the selection of suitable crops.
- early admission — a plan for admission to colleges in the US, in which students apply to colleges earlier in the year than is customary and receive their results earlier too
- early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century
- early saxifrage — an eastern North American plant, Saxifraga virginiensis, of the saxifrage family, having toothed basal leaves and branched clusters of small white flowers.
- easter islander — a native or inhabitant of Easter Island
- eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
- eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
- econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
- 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
- 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
- electric charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
- electric guitar — electrically-amplified guitar
- electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
- electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
- electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
- electrochemical — (chemistry) of, or relating to a chemical reaction brought about by electricity.
- electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
- electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.