15-letter words containing r, e, p, o, t, d
- 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.
- disproportioned — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
- 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.
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- editio princeps — first edition.
- edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- 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.
- enteropeptidase — Enterokinase.
- ergatandromorph — an ant with the characteristics of both worker and male
- esprit de corps — military, sport: team spirit
- evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
- expiration date — when food product is no longer fresh
- file descriptor — (programming, operating system) An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
- fire water pond — A fire water pond is an area of water which is kept so it can be used if there is a fire.
- first responder — a person who is certified to provide medical care in emergencies before more highly trained medical personnel arrive on the scene: a firefighter trained as a first responder.
- four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
- frigidoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by cold.
- furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
- gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
- get the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
- grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
- graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
- heart tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
- hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- high priesthood — the condition or office of a high priest.
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
- job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
- lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.