15-letter words containing s, i
- disorganization — a breaking up of order or system; disunion or disruption of constituent parts.
- disorientations — Plural form of disorientation.
- dispassionately — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
- dispensableness — The quality of being dispensable.
- disperse system — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
- display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
- displeasingness — the state of being displeasing
- dispositionally — In a dispositional manner.
- 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
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- dissatisfaction — the state or attitude of not being satisfied; discontent; displeasure.
- dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
- dissimilarities — Plural form of dissimilarity.
- dissolving view — an effect created by the projection of slides on a screen in such a way that each picture seems to dissolve into the succeeding one without an interval in between.
- 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.
- distinctiveness — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- 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.
- distinguishment — 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 rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
- 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.
- distressfulness — The state or quality of being distressful; the state of having or causing anxiety or strain.
- distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
- distributorship — a franchise held by a distributor.
- distrustfulness — The state or quality of being distrustful or doubtful; distrust; mistrust.
- 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.
- divertissements — Plural form of divertissement.
- divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
- 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.
- do sb's bidding — If you say that someone does another person's bidding, you disapprove of the fact that they do exactly what the other person asks them to do, even when they do not want to.
- do someone dirt — to do something vicious to someone
- do the business — to achieve what is required
- docking station — device: charger
- docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
- doctor's office — doctor's surgery
- doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
- dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
- 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 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.