15-letter words containing m, i, s, e, d
- deal someone in — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
- decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
- decommissioning — the act of decommissioning something
- decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
- decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- delivery system — any means or process for conveying a product or service to a recipient.
- delmonico steak — club steak
- demagnetisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of demagnetization.
- demassification — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
- democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
- demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
- demonstrational — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
- demonstratively — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
- 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.
- dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
- departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
- deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
- 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
- determinateness — The state or quality of being determinate.
- deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
- 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
- diamine oxidase — an enzyme, occurring in the digestive system, that inactivates histamine by removal of its amino group
- 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
- dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
- dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
- diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
- dimension stone — quarried and squared stone 2 feet (0.6 meters) or more in length and width and of specified thickness.
- dimethylsulfide — Alternative spelling of dimethyl sulfide.
- diomede islands — two small islands in the Bering Strait, separated by the international date line and by the boundary line between the US and Russia
- disappointments — Plural form of disappointment.
- disassimilative — of or relating to disassimilation
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- discommissioned — Simple past tense and past participle of discommission.
- 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.
- disentanglement — Removal of, or extrication from twists, tangles, complications or confusion.
- disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
- disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- 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