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17-letter words containing o, e, d, i, p

  • dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
  • dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
  • deportation order — a notification that a foreign national is legally required to leave the country
  • deprofessionalise — to remove from professional control, influence, manipulation, etc.
  • deprofessionalize — to remove from professional control, influence, manipulation, etc.
  • desktop publisher — desktop publishing
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • dextroamphetamine — a dextrorotatory amphetamine, used to suppress appetite
  • dialect geography — linguistic geography
  • dielectrophoresis — Dielectrophoresis is the movement of uncharged particles (= ones with no electrical charge) when a changing electric field is applied.
  • digital audiotape — a cassette containing magnetic tape used for high-fidelity digital recording or playback of audio. Abbreviation: DAT.
  • dihydromorphinone — a narcotic compound, C 17 H 19 O 3 N, prepared from morphine and used chiefly as an analgesic.
  • diphenylhydantoin — a white, slightly water-soluble powder, C 15 H 11 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its sodium salt to prevent or arrest convulsions in epilepsy.
  • dipterocarpaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dipterocarpaceae, a family of trees chiefly native to tropical SE Asia, having two-winged fruits. Many species yield useful timber and resins
  • discrete preorder — (mathematics)   A preorder is said to be discrete if any two of its elements are incomparable.
  • disorderly person — a person guilty of disorderly conduct.
  • dispassionateness — The state or quality of being dispassionate.
  • dispensationalism — the interpreting of history as a series of divine dispensations.
  • disposable income — the part of a person's income remaining after deducting personal income taxes.
  • disproportionates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disproportionate.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissociated press — [Play on "Associated Press"; perhaps inspired by a reference in the 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Up, Doc?"] An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage even more efficiently than by passing it through a marketroid. The algorithm starts by printing any N consecutive words (or letters) in the text. Then at every step it searches for any random occurrence in the original text of the last N words (or letters) already printed and then prints the next word or letter. Emacs has a handy command for this. Here is a short example of word-based Dissociated Press applied to an earlier version of the Jargon File: wart: A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an array (C has no checks for this). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the phrase is bent so as to be not worth paying attention to the medium in question. Here is a short example of letter-based Dissociated Press applied to the same source: window sysIWYG: A bit was named aften /bee't*/ prefer to use the other guy's re, especially in every cast a chuckle on neithout getting into useful informash speech makes removing a featuring a move or usage actual abstractionsidered interj. Indeed spectace logic or problem! A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Dissociated Press to a random body of text and vgrep the output in hopes of finding an interesting new word. (In the preceding example, "window sysIWYG" and "informash" show some promise.) Iterated applications of Dissociated Press usually yield better results. Similar techniques called "travesty generators" have been employed with considerable satirical effect to the utterances of Usenet flamers; see pseudo.
  • doberman pinscher — one of a German breed of medium-sized, short-haired dogs having a black, brown, or blue coat with rusty brown markings.
  • double pair royal — a set of four cards of the same denomination, worth 12 points.
  • down in the dumps — If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable.
  • dramatis personae — (used with a plural verb) the characters in a play.
  • droplet infection — infection spread by airborne droplets of secretions from the nose, throat, or lungs.
  • echocardiographer — A person who performs echocardiography.
  • echocardiographic — Of or pertaining to echocardiography.
  • ectoparasiticides — Plural form of ectoparasiticide.
  • electrodeposition — The deposition of a metal on a cathode during electrolysis; used as a method of purification.
  • employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
  • employer-provided — Employer-provided insurance is arranged or funded by the organization for which the policyholder works.
  • epicycloidal gear — a gear of an epicyclic train
  • epidemiologically — With regard to epidemiology.
  • exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
  • exceptional child — a gifted child
  • explosion welding — the welding of two parts forced together by a controlled explosion
  • export-orientated — (of an industry, company, etc) mainly concerned with the export of goods or services
  • field post office — a place to which mail intended for military units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded
  • five-spice powder — a mixture of spices used especially in Chinese cooking, usually including cinnamon, cloves, fennel seed, pepper, and star anise.
  • floppy disk drive — disk drive
  • frederick pollock — Sir Frederick, 1845–1937, English legal scholar and author.
  • garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
  • gender expression — the external expression of gender roles, as through socially defined behaviors and ways of dressing.
  • get one's wind up — to become (or be) nervous or alarmed
  • gold export point — an exchange rate at which it is as cheap to settle international accounts by exporting gold bullion as by buying bills of exchange
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • grain of paradise — Usually, grains of paradise. one of the pungent, peppery seeds of an African plant, Aframomum melegueta, of the ginger family, used to strengthen cordials and in veterinary medicine.
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