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16-letter words containing o, n, s, l

  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • disconsolateness — (uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
  • discriminatorily — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
  • dispersal prison — a prison organized and equipped to accommodate a proportion of the most dangerous and highest security risk prisoners
  • displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
  • displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
  • disqualification — an act or instance of disqualifying.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • distributionally — In a distributional manner.
  • district council — the local ruling body of an urban or rural district.
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
  • do oneself proud — to do extremely well
  • domain selection — (systems analysis)   The prioritisation and selection of one or more domains for which specific software reuse engineering projects are to be initiated.
  • dorr's rebellion — an insurrection in Rhode Island (1842) that grew out of dissatisfaction with the existing state constitution, which restricted suffrage to landholders or their eldest sons.
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • down one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
  • dry distillation — destructive distillation.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
  • east los angeles — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
  • economy of scale — a fall in average costs resulting from an increase in the scale of production
  • edsel ford range — a mountain range in Antarctica, E of the Ross Sea.
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
  • electrostriction — the change in dimensions of a dielectric occurring as an elastic strain when an electric field is applied
  • electrosynthesis — synthesis produced by means of an electric current
  • enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
  • endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
  • endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
  • environmentalism — A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
  • environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
  • epiphenomenalism — (philosophy, psychology, uncountable) The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
  • escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
  • event television — television programmes focusing on events that attract media attention and high ratings
  • exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
  • exclusion clause — (in a contract) something that serves to limit liabilities
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