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15-letter words containing s, i, m, o, n

  • costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
  • coumarone resin — any of the group of thermosetting resins derived by the polymerization of mixtures of coumarone and indene: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints, varnishes, and printing inks.
  • craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
  • criminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of criminalization.
  • crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
  • cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
  • croque-monsieur — a sandwich filled with ham and cheese, either dipped in egg batter or buttered on the outside, and toasted or grilled
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • deal someone in — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
  • decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
  • decommissioning — the act of decommissioning something
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • demagnetisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of demagnetization.
  • demassification — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
  • 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.
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • demystification — to rid of mystery or obscurity; clarify: to demystify medical procedures.
  • dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • diamine oxidase — an enzyme, occurring in the digestive system, that inactivates histamine by removal of its amino group
  • dichotomisation — Alternative spelling of dichotomization.
  • dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
  • dimension stone — quarried and squared stone 2 feet (0.6 meters) or more in length and width and of specified thickness.
  • diomede islands — two small islands in the Bering Strait, separated by the international date line and by the boundary line between the US and Russia
  • disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
  • disappointments — Plural form of disappointment.
  • disassimilation — The decomposition of complex substances, within an organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with the release of energy; a normal nutritional process that is the reverse of assimilation.
  • discommissioned — Simple past tense and past participle of discommission.
  • disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
  • disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • do someone dirt — to do something vicious to someone
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • 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
  • dynamic scoping — dynamic scope
  • 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
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
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