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15-letter words containing n, o, i, t, e, r

  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
  • dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
  • dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
  • dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
  • differentiation — Biology. the process by which cells or tissues change from relatively generalized to specialized kinds, during development.
  • differentiators — Plural form of differentiator.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • direct question — interrogative sentence
  • direct taxation — Direct taxation is a system in which a government raises money by means of direct taxes.
  • direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
  • disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • disintegrations — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • disk controller — (hardware, storage)   (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
  • disorientations — Plural form of disorientation.
  • disproportioned — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • do someone dirt — to do something vicious to someone
  • do the dirty on — to behave meanly or unkindly towards
  • dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
  • 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).
  • 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."
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
  • dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
  • 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 printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • eating disorder — any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.
  • 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.
  • editio princeps — first edition.
  • editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
  • edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • 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
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
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