15-letter words containing u, n, i, t, e
- deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
- derequisitioned — Simple past tense and past participle of derequisition.
- desexualization — The act or process of desexualizing.
- destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
- dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
- die standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- direct question — interrogative sentence
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- discontinuities — Plural form of discontinuity.
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- discountenanced — Simple past tense and past participle of discountenance.
- discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
- disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- distance runner — a participant in distance races.
- distastefulness — The state or quality of being distasteful or objectionable; causing averseness; unpleasantness.
- 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.
- 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.
- do an injustice — If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you.
- do the business — to achieve what is required
- documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
- 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).
- dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
- double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
- double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
- double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
- double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
- double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
- double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
- duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
- 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.
- duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
- duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
- 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.
- eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
- eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- efficient cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- 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
- elections judge — someone who oversees an election
- electrocutioner — A person who carries out an execution by means of electricity.
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.