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15-letter words containing s, t, i, r, l

  • desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
  • destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
  • 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
  • diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
  • dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
  • dielectric lens — a lens constructed of a material that converges or diverges a beam of electromagnetic radiation of radio frequency
  • dielectric loss — the loss of power in a dielectric caused by the loss of energy in the form of heat generated by an electric field.
  • diesel-electric — having an electric motor powered directly by an electric generator or by batteries charged by the generator, with the generator being driven by a diesel engine: a diesel-electric locomotive.
  • disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • disaster relief — financial or physical help provided to people or areas hit by a disaster
  • disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
  • dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
  • disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
  • disinterestedly — unbiased by personal interest or advantage; not influenced by selfish motives: a disinterested decision by the referee.
  • 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.
  • disproportional — not in proportion; disproportionate.
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • dissimilarities — Plural form of dissimilarity.
  • 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.
  • 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 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).
  • distressfulness — The state or quality of being distressful; the state of having or causing anxiety or strain.
  • distrustfulness — The state or quality of being distrustful or doubtful; distrust; mistrust.
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • 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
  • 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.
  • double or quits — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
  • early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century
  • easter islander — a native or inhabitant of Easter Island
  • eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
  • eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
  • electric socket — a device on a wall where you can plug electrical equipment into the electricity supply
  • electric system — An electric system consists of all of the elements needed to distribute electrical power, including overhead and underground lines, poles, transformers, and other equipment.
  • electro-osmosis — movement of liquid through a capillary tube or membrane under the influence of an electric field: used in controlling rising damp
  • electro-osmotic — relating to electro-osmosis
  • electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
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