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16-letter words containing s, t, o

  • disproportioning — Present participle of disproportion.
  • disputatiousness — The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.
  • disqualification — an act or instance of disqualifying.
  • dissatisfactions — Plural form of dissatisfaction.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • distributionally — In a distributional manner.
  • district council — the local ruling body of an urban or rural district.
  • distrito federal — Federal District. Abbreviation: D.F.
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
  • do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
  • do-it-yourselfer — an advocate or enthusiast of do-it-yourself
  • doctor's commons — the London building of the College of Advocates and Doctors of Law between 1572 and 1867, in which the ecclesiastical and Admiralty courts were housed
  • doctor's surgery — A doctor's surgery is the same as a doctor's office.
  • domain selection — (systems analysis)   The prioritisation and selection of one or more domains for which specific software reuse engineering projects are to be initiated.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • domestic science — home economics.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • domestic service — the work of household servants
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double solitaire — a game of solitaire for two persons, each player usually having a pack and layout but pooling foundations with the opponent.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • dramatic society — an amateur dramatics club
  • dressing station — a post or center that gives first aid to the wounded, located near a combat area.
  • drift transistor — a transistor in which the impurity concentration in the base increases from the collector-base junction to the emitter-base junction, producing a resistivity gradient that greatly increases its high-frequency response
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • dry distillation — destructive distillation.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
  • east coast fever — a disease of cattle, endemic in east and central Africa, caused by a parasite, Theileria parva, that is carried by ticks
  • east los angeles — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • eastern european — relating to, situated in or coming from Eastern Europe
  • eastern orthodox — of or relating to the Orthodox Church.
  • easy on the eyes — good looking, physically attractive
  • ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
  • ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
  • eicosapentaenoic — Of or pertaining to eicosapentaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • electrical storm — thunder, lightning
  • electroacoustics — a branch of acoustics that deals with the conversion of sound into electricity and vice versa, as in a microphone or a speaker
  • electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
  • electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
  • electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
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