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15-letter words containing m, i, s, d, r, e

  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
  • disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • disintermediate — (business, banking, finance) To carry out disintermediation.
  • disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
  • disperse system — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
  • dissimilarities — Plural form of dissimilarity.
  • divertissements — Plural form of divertissement.
  • do someone dirt — to do something vicious to someone
  • 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/.
  • dorito syndrome — (humour)   Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. "I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I've got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome."
  • 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.
  • 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
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
  • episodic memory — the recollection of events within their historical setting
  • 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]>
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
  • gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • gorlin syndrome — a rare congenital disorder in which cancer destroys the facial skin and causes blindness; skeletal anomalies can also occur
  • grimes (golden) — a yellow autumn eating apple
  • ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
  • hereditarianism — a person who believes that differences between individuals or groups, including moral and intellectual attributes, are predominantly determined by genetic factors (opposed to environmentalist).
  • hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
  • hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
  • hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
  • indeterministic — the doctrine that human actions, though influenced somewhat by preexisting psychological and other conditions, are not entirely governed by them but retain a certain freedom and spontaneity.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • marek's disease — a contagious cancerous disease of poultry, caused by a herpesvirus and characterized by proliferation of lymphoid cells and paralysis of a limb or the neck.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • massed practice — learning with no intervals or short intervals between successive bouts of learning
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