15-letter words containing n, o, a, d, p
- corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
- corn-root aphid — an aphid, Anuraphis maidiradicis, that lives as a symbiont in colonies of cornfield ants and feeds on the roots of corn: an agricultural pest.
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cyclopentadiene — a colourless liquid unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon obtained in the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons and the distillation of coal tar: used in the manufacture of plastics and insecticides. Formula: C5H6
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- dark adaptation — the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- data protection — (in Britain) safeguards for individuals relating to personal data stored on a computer
- davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
- deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
- decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
- delayed opening — the automatic opening of a parachute after a predetermined delay to allow the parachutist to reach a particular height
- depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
- depletion layer — a region at the interface between dissimilar zones of conductivity in a semiconductor, in which there are few charge carriers
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- deprivatization — The act or process of deprivatizing.
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
- despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
- developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
- developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
- developmentally — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
- dictation speed — a speed of speaking that enables someone to take down what is being said
- disappointingly — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
- disappointments — Plural form of disappointment.
- disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
- dispassionately — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
- dispositionally — In a dispositional manner.
- disproportional — not in proportion; disproportionate.
- doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon
- double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
- doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
- draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
- draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
- drip irrigation — a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes.
- drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
- dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
- dynamic scoping — dynamic scope
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- edgar allan poe — Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- edmund randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
- encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
- endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
- enteropeptidase — Enterokinase.
- epsilon squared — (jargon) A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
- ergatandromorph — an ant with the characteristics of both worker and male