15-letter words containing r, o, s, e, c, a
- curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
- curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
- customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- 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.
- dealer's choice — a card game, as poker, in which the dealer decides what particular game is to be played, often depending on the number of players, and designates any special variations or unusual rules, including setting the stakes.
- declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
- decorated style — a 14th-century style of English architecture characterized by the ogee arch, geometrical tracery, and floral decoration
- decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
- decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
- democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
- deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
- desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
- dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
- diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- downward closed — closure
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
- economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- electroanalyses — Plural form of electroanalysis.
- electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
- electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
- electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
- electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
- electromyograms — Plural form of electromyogram.
- electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
- eric conspiracy — (person, humour) A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
- eric s. raymond — (person) One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
- eta abstraction — eta conversion
- eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
- ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
- ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
- excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
- fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.