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15-letter words containing t, r, i, m, e

  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • dermatomyositis — a chronic medical condition characterized by inflammation of muscles (myositis), accompanied by a skin rash
  • dermatophytosis — a fungal infection of the skin, esp the feet
  • determinability — the quality of being determinable
  • determinateness — The state or quality of being determinate.
  • deuterium oxide — heavy water.
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • 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
  • diastereoisomer — a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer
  • dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
  • diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
  • diffractometric — Relating to diffractometry; measured using a diffractometer.
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • disintermediate — (business, banking, finance) To carry out disintermediation.
  • disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
  • disperse system — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
  • dissimilarities — Plural form of dissimilarity.
  • dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
  • divertissements — Plural form of divertissement.
  • do someone dirt — to do something vicious to someone
  • dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
  • 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/.
  • domitae naturae — (of animals) tamed or domesticated (distinguished from ferae naturae).
  • 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."
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
  • econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
  • economic strike — a strike called in protest over wages, hours, or working conditions.
  • edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • 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
  • electrochemical — (chemistry) of, or relating to a chemical reaction brought about by electricity.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
  • electronic mail — (messaging)   (e-mail) Messages automatically passed from one computer user to another, often through computer networks and/or via modems over telephone lines. A message, especially one following the common RFC 822 standard, begins with several lines of headers, followed by a blank line, and the body of the message. Most e-mail systems now support the MIME standard which allows the message body to contain "attachments" of different kinds rather than just one block of plain ASCII text. It is conventional for the body to end with a signature. Headers give the name and electronic mail address of the sender and recipient(s), the time and date when it was sent and a subject. There are many other headers which may get added by different message handling systems during delivery. The message is "composed" by the sender, usually using a special program - a "Mail User Agent" (MUA). It is then passed to some kind of "Message Transfer Agent" (MTA) - a program which is responsible for either delivering the message locally or passing it to another MTA, often on another host. MTAs on different hosts on a network often communicate using SMTP. The message is eventually delivered to the recipient's mailbox - normally a file on his computer - from where he can read it using a mail reading program (which may or may not be the same MUA as used by the sender). Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. The form "email" is also common, but is less suggestive of the correct pronunciation and derivation than "e-mail". The word is used as a noun for the concept ("Isn't e-mail great?", "Are you on e-mail?"), a collection of (unread) messages ("I spent all night reading my e-mail"), and as a verb meaning "to send (something in) an e-mail message" ("I'll e-mail you (my report)"). The use of "an e-mail" as a count noun for an e-mail message, and plural "e-mails", is now (2000) also well established despite the fact that "mail" is definitely a mass noun. Oddly enough, the word "emailed" is actually listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. It means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or arranged in a net work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived from French "emmailleure", network. Also, "email" is German for enamel.
  • electrothermics — the study of electricity and heat, or of electrically generated heat
  • eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
  • emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
  • emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
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