15-letter words containing o, l, i, d
- decollate snail — a cone-shaped, burrowing snail, Rumina decollata, that feeds on common brown garden snails.
- decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
- decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
- decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
- decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
- deflection yoke — an assembly of one or more coils through which a controlled current is passed to produce a magnetic field for deflecting a beam of electrons, as in a picture tube.
- deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
- deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
- delabialization — the result or process of delabializing.
- delayed opening — the automatic opening of a parachute after a predetermined delay to allow the parachutist to reach a particular height
- delaying action — a measure or measures taken to gain time, as when weaker military forces harass the advance of a superior enemy without coming to a pitched battle
- deleteriousness — The quality of being deleterious.
- delmonico steak — club steak
- delta reduction — (theory) In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
- democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
- demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- demolition bomb — a bomb containing a relatively large charge, used especially to destroy structures.
- demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
- demolition zone — an area consisting of buildings marked for demolition
- demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
- demonstrational — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
- demonstratively — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demutualization — Demutualization is a situation in which a mutually owned company such as an insurance company changes into a public company that issues stock.
- demythologizing — Present participle of demythologize.
- denationalizing — Present participle of denationalize.
- denormalization — to make normal.
- deoxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
- dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
- depletion layer — a region at the interface between dissimilar zones of conductivity in a semiconductor, in which there are few charge carriers
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- deserialization — The act or process of deserializing.
- desexualization — The act or process of desexualizing.
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- desocialization — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- destabilisation — Alternative spelling of destabilization.
- destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- detective novel — a novel in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
- detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
- 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
- dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
- diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
- diagonalisation — (UK) In matrix algebra, the process of converting a square matrix into a diagonal matrix, usually to find the eigenvalues of the matrix.