16-letter words containing s, a, d, i, t, c
- discriminatingly — With discrimination.
- discriminatorily — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- disfranchisement — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- disincorporation — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
- disqualification — an act or instance of disqualifying.
- dissatisfactions — Plural form of dissatisfaction.
- distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
- district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
- diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
- divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
- domain selection — (systems analysis) The prioritisation and selection of one or more domains for which specific software reuse engineering projects are to be initiated.
- domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
- domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
- domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
- dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
- dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
- ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
- endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
- endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
- federal district — a district in which the national government of a country is located, especially one in Latin America.
- feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
- flathead catfish — a yellow and brown catfish, Pylodictus olivaris, common in the central U.S., having a flattened head and a projecting lower jaw.
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
- graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
- graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics) (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
- hacienda heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- hydrostatic head — The hydrostatic head is the vertical height of a column of fluid.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- icositetrahedron — a solid figure having 24 faces.
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- in the ascendant — If someone or something is in the ascendant, they have or are getting more power, influence, or popularity than other people or things.
- incidental music — music intended primarily to point up or accompany parts of the action of a play or to serve as transitional material between scenes.
- indecent assault — a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
- indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
- indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
- indirect address — the address in a storage location that contains the actual machine address of a data item or of other information, as the next instruction, or that contains another indirect address.
- indiscriminantly — Misspelling of indiscriminately.
- indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- indiscriminating — not discriminating.
- indiscrimination — an act or instance of not discriminating.