15-letter words containing r, d, o
- on the decrease — decreasing
- on the order of — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
- operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
- operationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalize.
- orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
- orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
- orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
- orangeman's day — the 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690)
- orangemen's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
- order of battle — the organization or hierarchy of military forces in preparation for a battle.
- order of canada — an order awarded to Canadians for outstanding achievement; established in 1967
- order-embedding — A function f : D -> C is order-embedding iff for all x, y in D, f(x) <= f(y) <=> x <= y. I.e. arguments and results compare similarly. A function which is order-embedding is monotonic and one-to-one and an injection. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
- ordered n-tuple — a set of n objects or quantities, where n is an integer, especially such a set arranged in a specified order (ordered n-tuple)
- orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
- ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- ordinary degree — a university degree without honours
- ordinary income — taxable income, as salary and wages, other than capital gains.
- ordinary rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable to that of a private in the army
- ordinary seaman — a seaman insufficiently skilled to be classified as an able-bodied seaman. Abbreviation: O.D., O.S., o.s.
- ordinary shares — British. a share of common stock.
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
- organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
- ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
- orphaned i-node — (operating system) /or'f*nd i:'nohd/ [Unix] 1. A file that retains storage but no longer appears in the directories of a file system.
- ortega saavedra — (José) Daniel [haw-se dah-nyel] /hɔˈsɛ dɑˈnyɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1985–90.
- ortho-toluidine — Chemistry. a light-yellow, very slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 9 N, the ortho isomer of toluidine: used in the manufacture of dyes, saccharin, and other organic compounds, and in textile printing processes.
- orthoboric acid — boric acid (def 1). Compare ortho- (def 2).
- orthodontically — from an orthodontic point of view
- orthodox church — the Christian church comprising the local and national Eastern churches that are in communion with the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople; Byzantine Church.
- orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
- orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner
- osteochondritis — inflammation of bone and cartilage.
- osteochondrosis — a disease of bone and cartilage growth centers in children that begins as a necrosis and is followed by regeneration or renewed calcification.
- outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
- outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
- outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
- outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
- over one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- over-advertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- over-confidence — too confident.
- over-controlled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
- over-distention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- over-engineered — unnecessarily complicated