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15-letter words containing r, s, n, o

  • deserialization — The act or process of deserializing.
  • desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
  • design recovery — (process)   A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
  • desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
  • 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.
  • destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
  • dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
  • differentiators — Plural form of differentiator.
  • dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
  • direct question — interrogative sentence
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • discoordination — Impaired coordination.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
  • disintegrations — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • disk controller — (hardware, storage)   (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
  • disorganisation — Alternative spelling of disorganization.
  • disorganization — a breaking up of order or system; disunion or disruption of constituent parts.
  • disorientations — Plural form of disorientation.
  • disproportional — not in proportion; disproportionate.
  • disproportioned — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
  • disquisitionary — of or relating to a disquisition
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • do someone dirt — to do something vicious to someone
  • 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
  • domain squatter — (web)   An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
  • dorito syndrome — (humour)   Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. "I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I've got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome."
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
  • dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
  • double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
  • down's syndrome — a genetic disorder, associated with the presence of an extra chromosome 21, characterized by mild to severe mental impairment, weak muscle tone, shorter stature, and a flattened facial profile.
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