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15-letter words containing s, d, a

  • dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
  • dissimilarities — Plural form of dissimilarity.
  • distance medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards (402 meters), the second runs 880 yards (805 meters), the third runs 1320 yards (1207 meters), and the fourth runs 1760 yards (1609 meters).
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • distastefulness — The state or quality of being distasteful or objectionable; causing averseness; unpleasantness.
  • distilled water — water from which impurities, as dissolved salts and colloidal particles, have been removed by one or more processes of distillation; chemically pure water.
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distractibility — inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another: a symptom of a variety of mental disorders, as manic disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety states.
  • distress signal — a signal used, or designed to be used, by persons in peril, for the purpose of summoning aid, indicating their position, etc., as a radio code sign, aerial flare, flag hoist, or the like. Compare distress call (def 1).
  • distressed area — a region so severely damaged by a flood, hurricane, or other natural catastrophe that its inhabitants need food, clothing, shelter, and economic aid from national charities or the federal government.
  • distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
  • disulfuric acid — pyrosulfuric acid
  • dithionous acid — an unstable dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of dithionite salts. It is a powerful reducing agent. Formula: H2S2O4
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • divisional coin — a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
  • do an injustice — If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you.
  • docking station — device: charger
  • docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • dodecasyllables — Plural form of dodecasyllable.
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • domain analysis — (systems analysis)   1. Determining the operations, data objects, properties and abstractions appropriate for designing solutions to problems in a given domain. 2. The domain engineering activity in which domain knowledge is studied and formalised as a domain definition and a domain specification. A software reuse approach that involves combining software components, subsystems, etc., into a single application system. 3. The process of identifying, collecting organising, analysing and representing a domain model and software architecture from the study of existing systems, underlying theory, emerging technology and development histories within the domain of interest. 4. The analysis of systems within a domain to discover commonalities and differences among them.
  • domain calculus — (database)   A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
  • 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/.
  • domestic animal — an animal, as the horse or cat, that has been tamed and kept by humans as a work animal, food source, or pet, especially a member of those species that have, through selective breeding, become notably different from their wild ancestors.
  • doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon
  • 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.
  • dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
  • 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 saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • 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).
  • double-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) overlapping sufficiently in front to allow for two rows of buttons.
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • downheartedness — The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
  • downward closed — closure
  • dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
  • drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
  • draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • dress rehearsal — a rehearsal of a play or other performance in costume and with scenery, properties, and lights arranged and operated as for a performance: often the final rehearsal.
  • dribs and drabs — small sporadic amounts
  • drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
  • dual admissions — a system whereby students attaining less good marks than what is required are offered a place provided they successfully complete another course first to improve some aspect of their work
  • duque de caxias — a city in SE Brazil: a suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • dynamic scoping — dynamic scope
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
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