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15-letter words containing n, p, d

  • davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • 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.
  • deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • deep-sea diving — the activity of diving and exploring in the deep parts of the sea
  • defunct process — zombie process
  • delayed opening — the automatic opening of a parachute after a predetermined delay to allow the parachutist to reach a particular height
  • departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
  • departmentalize — to organize into departments, esp excessively
  • 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.
  • depressor nerve — any nerve that when stimulated produces a fall in blood pressure by dilating the arteries or lowering the heartbeat
  • deprivatization — The act or process of deprivatizing.
  • deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • descriptionless — Without a description.
  • descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • 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.
  • dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
  • 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
  • die standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
  • digital mapping — a method of preparing maps in which the data is stored in a computer for ease of access and updating
  • diphenhydramine — a white, crystalline, antihistaminic compound, C 17 H 21 NO, used orally, topically, and parenterally, especially for allergies.
  • diphenyl ketone — benzophenone.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • disappointingly — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
  • disappointments — Plural form of disappointment.
  • disciplinarians — Plural form of disciplinarian.
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • 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.
  • dispensableness — The quality of being dispensable.
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • displeasingness — the state of being displeasing
  • dispositionally — In a dispositional manner.
  • disproportional — not in proportion; disproportionate.
  • disproportioned — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
  • dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
  • 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
  • doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon
  • 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 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 stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • 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.
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