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15-letter words containing m, o, t, r, i

  • discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
  • 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
  • dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
  • 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/.
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
  • economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
  • edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • electro-osmosis — movement of liquid through a capillary tube or membrane under the influence of an electric field: used in controlling rising damp
  • electro-osmotic — relating to electro-osmosis
  • electrochemical — (chemistry) of, or relating to a chemical reaction brought about by electricity.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
  • electronic mail — (messaging)   (e-mail) Messages automatically passed from one computer user to another, often through computer networks and/or via modems over telephone lines. A message, especially one following the common RFC 822 standard, begins with several lines of headers, followed by a blank line, and the body of the message. Most e-mail systems now support the MIME standard which allows the message body to contain "attachments" of different kinds rather than just one block of plain ASCII text. It is conventional for the body to end with a signature. Headers give the name and electronic mail address of the sender and recipient(s), the time and date when it was sent and a subject. There are many other headers which may get added by different message handling systems during delivery. The message is "composed" by the sender, usually using a special program - a "Mail User Agent" (MUA). It is then passed to some kind of "Message Transfer Agent" (MTA) - a program which is responsible for either delivering the message locally or passing it to another MTA, often on another host. MTAs on different hosts on a network often communicate using SMTP. The message is eventually delivered to the recipient's mailbox - normally a file on his computer - from where he can read it using a mail reading program (which may or may not be the same MUA as used by the sender). Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. The form "email" is also common, but is less suggestive of the correct pronunciation and derivation than "e-mail". The word is used as a noun for the concept ("Isn't e-mail great?", "Are you on e-mail?"), a collection of (unread) messages ("I spent all night reading my e-mail"), and as a verb meaning "to send (something in) an e-mail message" ("I'll e-mail you (my report)"). The use of "an e-mail" as a count noun for an e-mail message, and plural "e-mails", is now (2000) also well established despite the fact that "mail" is definitely a mass noun. Oddly enough, the word "emailed" is actually listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. It means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or arranged in a net work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived from French "emmailleure", network. Also, "email" is German for enamel.
  • electrothermics — the study of electricity and heat, or of electrically generated heat
  • eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
  • emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
  • enantiomorphism — (chemistry) The relationship exhibited by a pair of enantiomorphs.
  • enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
  • environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
  • erosive mixture — An erosive mixture is a mixture containing substances that wear away components or cause problems with the flow of oil along pipelines.
  • erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
  • ethnic minority — an immigrant or racial group regarded by those claiming to speak for the cultural majority as distinct and unassimilated
  • ethnocentricism — Ethnocentrism.
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
  • experimentation — The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
  • extemporisation — Alternative spelling of extemporization.
  • extemporization — The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
  • extreme ironing — an activity that involves ironing items of laundry while engaged in a sport such as snowboarding or rock climbing
  • extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • false miterwort — foamflower.
  • familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
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