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15-letter words containing s, e, r, a, m

  • counter-measure — A counter-measure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
  • countermeasures — Plural form of countermeasure.
  • crash programme — a short intensive programme to learn a skill, language, etc
  • creme de cassis — a sweet, purplish-red liqueur flavored with black currants
  • creme de fraise — a liqueur flavored principally with strawberries.
  • crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
  • cross assembler — an assembler that runs on a computer other than the one for which it assembles programs
  • cross-assembler — An assembler which runs on one type of processor and produces machine code for another. There is a set of 6502, 68xx and Zilog Z80 and 8085 cross-assemblers in C by <[email protected]> and Alan R. Baldwin. They run under MS-DOS and could be compiled to run under Unix and on the Amiga and Atari ST. See also fas.
  • cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
  • customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
  • delsarte method — a theory or system devised by François Delsarte for improving musical and dramatic expression through the mastery of various bodily attitudes and gestures.
  • delsarte system — a method of teaching drama and dancing based on the exercises of Alexandre Delsarte (1811–71), famous teacher at the Paris Conservatoire
  • demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
  • democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • demonstrational — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
  • demonstratively — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
  • departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • dermatomyositis — a chronic medical condition characterized by inflammation of muscles (myositis), accompanied by a skin rash
  • dermatophytosis — a fungal infection of the skin, esp the feet
  • 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.
  • determinateness — The state or quality of being determinate.
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • diaheliotropism — the tendency among plants to respond to the light of the sun by orienting their leaves perpendicular to the sun's rays, such that the upper surface of the leaves receives maximum light
  • diastereoisomer — a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer
  • diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
  • disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
  • disintermediate — (business, banking, finance) To carry out disintermediation.
  • disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
  • dissimilarities — Plural form of dissimilarity.
  • 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/.
  • early admission — a plan for admission to colleges in the US, in which students apply to colleges earlier in the year than is customary and receive their results earlier too
  • eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • elder statesman — experienced, respected figure
  • 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.
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