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15-letter words containing n, o, d, u, t, i

  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • diamond cutting — the art or work of cutting and shaping rough diamonds to make them suitable for use by the jewellery trade
  • dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
  • dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • direct question — interrogative sentence
  • disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
  • disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • discontinuation — a breach or interruption of continuity or unity: Progress was delayed by repeated discontinuations of work.
  • discontinuities — Plural form of discontinuity.
  • discontinuously — In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discountenanced — Simple past tense and past participle of discountenance.
  • discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
  • disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • disquisitionary — of or relating to a disquisition
  • dithionous acid — an unstable dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of dithionite salts. It is a powerful reducing agent. Formula: H2S2O4
  • do an injustice — If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you.
  • do the business — to achieve what is required
  • documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
  • 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/.
  • domitae naturae — (of animals) tamed or domesticated (distinguished from ferae naturae).
  • dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
  • double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
  • double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
  • drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
  • drinking trough — a narrow open container in which water for animals is put
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • 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.
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • elections judge — someone who oversees an election
  • endonucleolytic — relating to endonuclease
  • expeditiousness — The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
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