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15-letter words containing s, o, n

  • discoordination — Impaired coordination.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discountenanced — Simple past tense and past participle of discountenance.
  • discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
  • dishabilitation — the imposition of a legal disqualification
  • disillusionised — Simple past tense and past participle of disillusionise.
  • disillusionized — Simple past tense and past participle of disillusionize.
  • disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
  • disintegrations — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • disintoxication — detoxification (def 4).
  • disk controller — (hardware, storage)   (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
  • disorganisation — Alternative spelling of disorganization.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • dissatisfaction — the state or attitude of not being satisfied; discontent; displeasure.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • do oneself well — to achieve success for oneself
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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."
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
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