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15-letter words containing s, o, d, y

  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
  • dispassionately — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
  • dispositionally — In a dispositional manner.
  • disquisitionary — of or relating to a disquisition
  • dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
  • divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
  • dodecasyllables — Plural form of dodecasyllable.
  • 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.
  • domestic system — a manufacturing system whereby workers make products in their own homes with materials supplied by entrepreneurs.
  • doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • down's syndrome — a genetic disorder, associated with the presence of an extra chromosome 21, characterized by mild to severe mental impairment, weak muscle tone, shorter stature, and a flattened facial profile.
  • dry goods store — a shop selling textiles and haberdashery
  • dyer's woodruff — a European plant, Asperula tinctoria, of the madder family, having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots.
  • dynamic scoping — dynamic scope
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
  • dysmorphophobic — relating to or affected with dysmorphophobia
  • dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
  • 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
  • eddystone light — lighthouse on dangerous rocks (Eddystone Rocks) just off the SE coast of Cornwall, in the English Channel
  • eddystone rocks — a dangerous group of rocks at the W end of the English Channel, southwest of Plymouth: lighthouse
  • effort syndrome — an anxiety reaction characterized by quick fatigue, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, and other cardiac symptoms, but not caused by disease of the heart.
  • effort-syndrome — an anxiety reaction characterized by quick fatigue, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, and other cardiac symptoms, but not caused by disease of the heart.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
  • episodic memory — the recollection of events within their historical setting
  • eric s. raymond — (person)   One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • fixed-do system — a system of solmization in which the syllable do is always C, regardless of the key.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • follow-up study — a second study made as a follow-up to an initial study
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • frederick soddy — Frederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.
  • fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • goody two shoes — a goody-goody.
  • goody two-shoes — goody-goody
  • goody-two-shoes — a goody-goody.
  • gorlin syndrome — a rare congenital disorder in which cancer destroys the facial skin and causes blindness; skeletal anomalies can also occur
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