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15-letter words containing n, o, r, d, i

  • discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
  • 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.
  • disorganisation — Alternative spelling of disorganization.
  • disorganization — a breaking up of order or system; disunion or disruption of constituent parts.
  • disorientations — Plural form of disorientation.
  • disproportional — not in proportion; disproportionate.
  • disproportioned — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
  • disquisitionary — of or relating to a disquisition
  • 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
  • do your head in — If something or someone does your head in, they make you angry or frustrated.
  • 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 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).
  • donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
  • 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 in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • 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
  • draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
  • drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
  • drift indicator — an instrument that indicates the amount of drift of an aircraft.
  • drink deep (of) — to take in a large amount (of) by or as by drinking
  • drinking trough — a narrow open container in which water for animals is put
  • drip irrigation — a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes.
  • drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
  • 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.
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
  • dynamic routing — (networking)   (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
  • early admission — a plan for admission to colleges in the US, in which students apply to colleges earlier in the year than is customary and receive their results earlier too
  • 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.
  • editio princeps — first edition.
  • editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
  • edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
  • 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
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