15-letter words containing to
- diphenyl ketone — benzophenone.
- disintoxication — detoxification (def 4).
- dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
- distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
- distributorship — a franchise held by a distributor.
- doctor's degree — any of several academic degrees of the highest rank, as the Ph.D. or Ed.D., awarded by universities and some colleges for completing advanced work in graduate school or a professional school.
- doctor's office — doctor's surgery
- 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.
- dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
- 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."
- double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
- double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
- dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
- drift indicator — an instrument that indicates the amount of drift of an aircraft.
- dry goods store — a shop selling textiles and haberdashery
- duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
- duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
- duty to retreat — a legal principle that requires a person as a first response to back away or flee from a threatening situation rather than attempt self-defense by deadly force: Duty to retreat has always been a debatable doctrine.
- eau de toilette — toilet water.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- eclipse scotoma — a blind spot; a permanent or temporary area of depressed or absent vision caused by viewing the sun directly
- ecotoxicologist — One who studies ecotoxicology.
- eddington limit — the theoretical upper limit of luminosity that a star of a given mass can reach; occurs when the outward force of the radiation just balances the inward gravitational force
- eddystone light — lighthouse on dangerous rocks (Eddystone Rocks) just off the SE coast of Cornwall, in the English Channel
- eddystone rocks — a dangerous group of rocks at the W end of the English Channel, southwest of Plymouth: lighthouse
- editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
- electroreceptor — A cell or organ responsible for electroreception.
- entomologically — In terms of entomology.
- epikeratophakia — The surgical correction of aphakia. It is a refractive surgical procedure in which a donor cornea is transplanted to the anterior surface of the patient's cornea. A lamellar disc from a donor cornea is placed over the de-epithelialized host cornea and sutured into a prepared groove on the host cornea.
- epitestosterone — (organic compound) An inactive epimer of the steroid hormone testosterone.
- eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
- excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
- 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.
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- fault tolerance — (architecture) 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
- feelgood factor — When journalists refer to the feelgood factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
- fiesta de toros — a bullfight; corrida.
- file descriptor — (programming, operating system) An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
- fine-tooth comb — a comb having narrow, closely set teeth.
- finishing touch — a final additional or detail that completes and perfects something
- finite automata — Finite State Machine
- fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
- foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
- fore-topgallant — being a sail, yard, or rigging belonging to a fore-topgallant mast.
- freestone state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo