15-letter words containing o, d, r, i
- dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
- distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
- distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
- distributorship — a franchise held by a distributor.
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- 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.
- doctor's office — doctor's surgery
- doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
- dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
- 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 or quits — 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 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.
- dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
- 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.
- dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
- dysmorphophobic — relating to or affected with dysmorphophobia
- 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.
- echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
- echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- editio princeps — first edition.
- editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.