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15-letter words containing p, r, e, t

  • 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
  • davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
  • defunct process — zombie process
  • departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
  • departmentalize — to organize into departments, esp excessively
  • departure board — a board in an airport, bus terminal, etc displaying the times and destinations of future departures
  • dephosphorylate — to remove a phosphate group from (an organic compound)
  • 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.
  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • 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
  • descriptionless — Without a description.
  • descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
  • dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
  • 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
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • disperse system — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
  • disproportioned — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • 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.
  • dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • early-type star — any massive hot star of spectral type O, B, or A
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • editio princeps — first edition.
  • edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • edwards plateau — a highland area in SW Texas. 2000–5000 feet (600–1500 meters) high.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • egyptian jasper — a type of jasper, generally with zones of colour, found in desert regions of Egypt
  • electra complex — the sexual attachment of a female child to her father
  • electra paradox — the supposed paradox that one may know something to be true of an object under one description but not another, as when Electra knew that Orestes was her brother but not that the man before her was her brother although he was Orestes. This shows the predicate "knows" to be intensional, that Electra's knowledge here is de dicto, and that the statement of it yields an opaque context
  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
  • electromyograph — A device used in electromyography to generate electromyograms.
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