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16-letter words containing m, o, t, r, d, i

  • diacetylmorphine — heroin.
  • diamond district — the part of a town where diamond merchants and jewellers have their businesses
  • diastereoisomers — Plural form of diastereoisomer.
  • dictionary flame — [Usenet] An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over definitions to disputes about reality. Compare spelling flame.
  • dictionary-maker — a person who compiles a dictionary
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • dinosaurs mating — (humour)   The activity said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
  • diplomatic corps — the entire body of diplomats accredited to and resident at a court or capital.
  • direct democracy — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • direction number — the component of a vector along a given line; any number proportional to the direction cosines of a given line.
  • discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
  • discriminatorily — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • domestic service — the work of household servants
  • dominical letter — any one of the letters from A to G used in church calendars to mark the Sundays throughout any particular year, serving primarily to aid in determining the date of Easter.
  • dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
  • dumont d'urville — Jules Sébastien César [zhyl sey-bas-tyan sey-zar] /ʒül seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), 1790–1842, French naval officer: explored South Pacific and Antarctic.
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
  • fair to middling — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
  • hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
  • hemorrhoidectomy — the surgical removal of hemorrhoids.
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • hydroformylation — the addition of a hydrogen atom and the formyl group to a double bond of a hydrocarbon by reaction with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst.
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
  • indiscrimination — an act or instance of not discriminating.
  • information desk — helpdesk, information point
  • informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
  • interdimensional — Between dimensions.
  • inverted mordent — a melodic embellishment consisting of a rapid alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone one degree above it.
  • latissimus dorsi — a broad, flat muscle on each side of the midback, the action of which draws the arm backward and downward and rotates the front of the arm toward the body.
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
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