15-letter words containing m, o, d, i
- diffractometric — Relating to diffractometry; measured using a diffractometer.
- 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
- dimension stone — quarried and squared stone 2 feet (0.6 meters) or more in length and width and of specified thickness.
- 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
- disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
- disappointments — Plural form of disappointment.
- disassimilation — The decomposition of complex substances, within an organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with the release of energy; a normal nutritional process that is the reverse of assimilation.
- 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.
- disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
- disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
- disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- do someone dirt — to do something vicious to someone
- documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
- dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
- domain analysis — (systems analysis) 1. Determining the operations, data objects, properties and abstractions appropriate for designing solutions to problems in a given domain. 2. The domain engineering activity in which domain knowledge is studied and formalised as a domain definition and a domain specification. A software reuse approach that involves combining software components, subsystems, etc., into a single application system. 3. The process of identifying, collecting organising, analysing and representing a domain model and software architecture from the study of existing systems, underlying theory, emerging technology and development histories within the domain of interest. 4. The analysis of systems within a domain to discover commonalities and differences among them.
- 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.
- domain maturity — (systems analysis) The level of stability and depth of understanding that has been achieved in an area for which applications are developed.
- 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/.
- 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.
- domestic system — a manufacturing system whereby workers make products in their own homes with materials supplied by entrepreneurs.
- dominical altar — a high altar.
- domitae naturae — (of animals) tamed or domesticated (distinguished from ferae naturae).
- 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."
- doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
- down the middle — If you divide or split something down the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.
- dual admissions — a system whereby students attaining less good marks than what is required are offered a place provided they successfully complete another course first to improve some aspect of their work
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- dynamic scoping — dynamic scope
- dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
- dysmorphophobic — relating to or affected with dysmorphophobia
- 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.
- eddington limit — the theoretical upper limit of luminosity that a star of a given mass can reach; occurs when the outward force of the radiation just balances the inward gravitational force
- edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
- 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
- endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
- endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
- endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
- epidemiological — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
- epidemiologists — Plural form of epidemiologist.