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15-letter words containing n, o, s, e, d

  • discountenanced — Simple past tense and past participle of discountenance.
  • discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • disillusionised — Simple past tense and past participle of disillusionise.
  • disillusionized — Simple past tense and past participle of disillusionize.
  • disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • 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.
  • dispassionately — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
  • disproportioned — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
  • dissolving view — an effect created by the projection of slides on a screen in such a way that each picture seems to dissolve into the succeeding one without an interval in between.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • 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 one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • do oneself well — to achieve success for oneself
  • do someone dirt — to do something vicious to someone
  • do the business — to achieve what is required
  • docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
  • 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/.
  • domestic animal — an animal, as the horse or cat, that has been tamed and kept by humans as a work animal, food source, or pet, especially a member of those species that have, through selective breeding, become notably different from their wild ancestors.
  • doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon
  • 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.
  • 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 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 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
  • double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • down's syndrome — a genetic disorder, associated with the presence of an extra chromosome 21, characterized by mild to severe mental impairment, weak muscle tone, shorter stature, and a flattened facial profile.
  • downheartedness — The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
  • downward closed — closure
  • dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
  • drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
  • duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • 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 longmeadow — a city in SW Massachusetts.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • eat one's words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • eating disorder — any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.
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