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16-letter words containing t, o, r, e

  • dark of the moon — the period during which the moon is not visible.
  • darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • data preparation — the process of converting data or information into a form that can be read by a computer, so that the data can then be entered into the computer
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • dc potentiometer — A DC potentiometer is a potentiometer in which the supply is a battery and the balance is under direct current conditions.
  • de-concentration — to reduce the power or control of (a corporation, industry, etc.); decentralize.
  • dear john letter — a letter from someone (esp to a man) breaking off a love affair
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debenture holder — a person or organization holds a debenture
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
  • decentralization — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decimal fraction — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
  • decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
  • deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
  • deflecting force — the apparent deflection (Coriolis acceleration) of a body in motion with respect to the earth, as seen by an observer on the earth, attributed to a fictitious force (Coriolis force) but actually caused by the rotation of the earth and appearing as a deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • degrees of frost — When someone says that there are a particular number of degrees of frost they mean that the temperature is that number of degrees below freezing point.
  • dehydroascorbate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of dehydroascorbic acid.
  • delayed reaction — response after an interval
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • dementia praecox — schizophrenia
  • demilitarisation — The removal of a military force, usually at the end of hostilities or as part of a treaty.
  • demilitarization — to deprive of military character; free from militarism.
  • demineralisation — Alternative spelling of demineralization.
  • demineralization — to remove minerals from; deprive of mineral content.
  • democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
  • demolition derby — a competition in which contestants drive old cars into each other until there is only one car left running
  • demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • denaturalization — The act or process of denaturalizing, of changing or destroying the quality (nature) of a thing.
  • denuclearization — The act or process of denuclearizing.
  • department store — A department store is a large shop which sells many different kinds of goods.
  • departure lounge — In an airport, the departure lounge is the place where passengers wait before they get onto their plane.
  • depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
  • depolymerization — (chemistry) The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments.
  • depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
  • depth perception — ability to see objects in perspective
  • deradicalization — the practice of encouraging those with extreme and violent religious or political ideologies to adopt more moderate views
  • dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
  • destroyer escort — a lightly armed warship smaller than a destroyer, designed to escort fleets or convoys
  • destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
  • detention center — A detention center is a sort of prison, for example, a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept while a decision is made about what to do with them.
  • detention centre — A detention centre is a sort of prison, for example a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept while a decision is made about what to do with them.
  • deterritorialize — (transitive) To subject to deterritorialization.
  • deuterocanonical — of or constituting a second or subsequent canon; specif., designating certain Biblical books accepted as canonical in the Roman Catholic Church, but held by Protestants to be apocryphal
  • development area — (in Britain) an area suffering from high unemployment and economic depression, because of the decline of its main industries, that is given government help to establish new industries
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