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15-letter words containing y, c, a, r, i

  • data dictionary — an index of data held in a database and used to assist in the access to data
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
  • distractibility — inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another: a symptom of a variety of mental disorders, as manic disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety states.
  • dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
  • dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
  • dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
  • dynamic pricing — the practice of offering goods at a price that changes according to the level of demand, the type of customer, the state of the weather, etc
  • dynamic routing — (networking)   (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
  • 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
  • econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodialytic — Relating to electrodialysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • embryologically — Regarding embryology.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
  • epicyclic train — a cluster of gears consisting of a central gearwheel with external teeth (the sun), a coaxial gearwheel of greater diameter with internal teeth (the annulus), and one or more planetary gears engaging with both of them to provide a large gear ratio in a compact space
  • eric conspiracy — (person, humour)   A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
  • eric s. raymond — (person)   One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • every which way — Every which way and any which way are used to emphasize that something happens, or might happen, in a lot of different ways, or using a lot of different methods.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
  • extrajudicially — Outside of the legal system.
  • factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
  • first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
  • for a certainty — without doubt
  • gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
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