15-letter words containing p, a, r, d, i
- cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
- class president — the student president of a school or college class
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
- corn-root aphid — an aphid, Anuraphis maidiradicis, that lives as a symbiont in colonies of cornfield ants and feeds on the roots of corn: an agricultural pest.
- credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
- critical period — a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
- dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
- dark adaptation — the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- data protection — (in Britain) safeguards for individuals relating to personal data stored on a computer
- de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
- decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
- departmentalize — to organize into departments, esp excessively
- depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
- depletion layer — a region at the interface between dissimilar zones of conductivity in a semiconductor, in which there are few charge carriers
- deprivatization — The act or process of deprivatizing.
- 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
- dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
- dermatophytosis — a fungal infection of the skin, esp the feet
- diaheliotropism — the tendency among plants to respond to the light of the sun by orienting their leaves perpendicular to the sun's rays, such that the upper surface of the leaves receives maximum light
- diaphototropism — growth of a plant or plant part in a direction transverse to that of the light
- diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
- diphenhydramine — a white, crystalline, antihistaminic compound, C 17 H 21 NO, used orally, topically, and parenterally, especially for allergies.
- disciplinarians — Plural form of disciplinarian.
- 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.
- disproportional — not in proportion; disproportionate.
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
- dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
- dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
- draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
- draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
- drip irrigation — a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes.
- dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
- dynamic pricing — the practice of offering goods at a price that changes according to the level of demand, the type of customer, the state of the weather, etc
- dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
- edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes