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15-letter words containing m, a, c, s, n

  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • demassification — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
  • democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • demystification — to rid of mystery or obscurity; clarify: to demystify medical procedures.
  • deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
  • dichotomisation — Alternative spelling of dichotomization.
  • disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
  • disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
  • distance medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards (402 meters), the second runs 880 yards (805 meters), the third runs 1320 yards (1207 meters), and the fourth runs 1760 yards (1609 meters).
  • 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.
  • domestic animal — an animal, as the horse or cat, that has been tamed and kept by humans as a work animal, food source, or pet, especially a member of those species that have, through selective breeding, become notably different from their wild ancestors.
  • 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 scoping — dynamic scope
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • emancipationist — An advocate of the emancipation of slaves.
  • endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
  • enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
  • eric s. raymond — (person)   One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
  • etesian climate — a climate having sunny, hot, dry summers and rainy winters.
  • ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
  • french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
  • gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
  • glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
  • grammaticalness — (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • harmonic series — a series in which the reciprocals of the terms form an arithmetic progression.
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
  • hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
  • horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
  • human resources — (used with a plural verb) people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
  • image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
  • immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
  • implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
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