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16-letter words containing o, s, t, e, c

  • dentist's office — A dentist's office is the room or house where a dentist works.
  • dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
  • depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
  • descent function — If a recursive function is of the form f x = ... f (d x) ... then d is known as the descent function.
  • destroyer escort — a lightly armed warship smaller than a destroyer, designed to escort fleets or convoys
  • devil's advocate — If you play devil's advocate in a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.
  • direct discourse — quotation of a speaker in which the speaker's exact words are repeated.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • direction cosine — the cosine of the angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
  • director's chair — a lightweight folding armchair with transversely crossed legs and having a canvas seat and back panel, as traditionally used by motion-picture directors.
  • disaccreditation — to take away the accreditation or authorization of: to disaccredit a diplomat.
  • disclosing agent — a vegetable dye, administered as a liquid or in tablet form (disclosing tablet), that stains plaque, making it readily apparent on the teeth
  • disconcertedness — The characteristic of being disconcerted.
  • disconnectedness — The characteristic of being disconnected.
  • disconsolateness — (uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
  • discontentedness — The state or quality of being discontented.
  • discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
  • discourteousness — The state or quality of being discourteous.
  • discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
  • doctor's surgery — A doctor's surgery is the same as a doctor's office.
  • domain selection — (systems analysis)   The prioritisation and selection of one or more domains for which specific software reuse engineering projects are to be initiated.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • domestic science — home economics.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • domestic service — the work of household servants
  • dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • east coast fever — a disease of cattle, endemic in east and central Africa, caused by a parasite, Theileria parva, that is carried by ticks
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
  • eicosapentaenoic — Of or pertaining to eicosapentaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • electrical storm — thunder, lightning
  • electroacoustics — a branch of acoustics that deals with the conversion of sound into electricity and vice versa, as in a microphone or a speaker
  • electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
  • electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
  • electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
  • 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
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
  • electroreceptors — Plural form of electroreceptor.
  • 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
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