15-letter words containing t, h, e
- deutsches reich — former German name of Germany.
- developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
- 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
- dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
- dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
- dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
- dichroic filter — an optical colour filter operating on the principle of wave interference between closely spaced reflecting surfaces, rather than by colour absorption
- dimethylaniline — a very toxic oily liquid used in industry to harden certain synthetic resins and as a solvent
- dimethylbenzene — xylene.
- dimethylmethane — propane.
- dimethylsulfide — Alternative spelling of dimethyl sulfide.
- diphenyl ketone — benzophenone.
- direct lighting — lighting in which most of the light is cast directly from the fixture or source to the illumined area.
- disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
- disestablishing — Present participle of disestablish.
- dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
- distinguishable — 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.
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- do the business — to achieve what is required
- do the dirty on — to behave meanly or unkindly towards
- doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
- dogtooth violet — Also called adder's-tongue, trout lily. any of several North American lilies of the genus Erythronium, having nodding flowers and usually mottled leaves.
- 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
- dongola leather — a leather similar to kid, made from goatskin, sheepskin, or calfskin.
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- double-declutch — to change to a lower gear in a motor vehicle by first placing the gear lever into the neutral position before engaging the desired gear, at the same time releasing the clutch pedal and increasing the engine speed
- dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
- down the middle — If you divide or split something down the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.
- downheartedness — The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
- droste-hulshoff — Annette Elisabeth Freiin von [ah-net-uh ey-lee-zah-bet frahy-in fuh n] /ɑˈnɛt ə eɪˈli zɑˌbɛt ˈfraɪ ɪn fən/ (Show IPA), 1797–1848, German poet.
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
- 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
- ease the rudder — to reduce the angle the rudder makes with the fore-and-aft line so that the vessel will turn more gradually
- easy on the eye — pleasant to look at; attractive, esp sexually
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- eddystone light — lighthouse on dangerous rocks (Eddystone Rocks) just off the SE coast of Cornwall, in the English Channel
- editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
- edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- eight-bit clean — (software) A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
- electric charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
- electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
- electrochemical — (chemistry) of, or relating to a chemical reaction brought about by electricity.
- electromyograph — A device used in electromyography to generate electromyograms.
- electrophoreses — Plural form of electrophoresis.
- electrophoresis — The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field.
- electrophoretic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by electrophoresis.
- electrorheology — the study of the flow of fluids under the influence of electric fields