15-letter words containing o, e, a
- 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.
- diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
- diffractometric — Relating to diffractometry; measured using a diffractometer.
- dinoflagellates — Plural form of dinoflagellate.
- diomede islands — two small islands in the Bering Strait, separated by the international date line and by the boundary line between the US and Russia
- 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.
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- disaffectionate — not affectionate
- disappointments — Plural form of disappointment.
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- discountenanced — Simple past tense and past participle of discountenance.
- discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
- disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
- disintegrations — the act or process of disintegrating.
- disorientations — Plural form of disorientation.
- dispassionately — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- 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 your head in — If something or someone does your head in, they make you angry or frustrated.
- docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
- doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
- document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
- documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
- dodecanoic acid — lauric acid.
- dodecasyllables — Plural form of dodecasyllable.
- dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
- dolichocephalic — long-headed; having a cephalic index of 75 and under.
- dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
- 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.
- domitae naturae — (of animals) tamed or domesticated (distinguished from ferae naturae).
- dongola leather — a leather similar to kid, made from goatskin, sheepskin, or calfskin.
- doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon
- 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 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 jeopardy — the subjecting of a person to a second trial or punishment for the same offense for which the person has already been tried or punished.
- double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
- double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.