15-letter words that end in n
- dissatisfaction — the state or attitude of not being satisfied; discontent; displeasure.
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- divisional coin — a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
- do the dirty on — to behave meanly or unkindly towards
- do your head in — If something or someone does your head in, they make you angry or frustrated.
- docking station — device: charger
- doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon
- 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 saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
- doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
- dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
- drip irrigation — a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes.
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- early admission — a plan for admission to colleges in the US, in which students apply to colleges earlier in the year than is customary and receive their results earlier too
- 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
- edriophthalmian — edriophthalmous
- eight-bit clean — (software) A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
- elder statesman — experienced, respected figure
- electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
- emperor penguin — large Antarctic penguin
- encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
- epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
- 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
- eta abstraction — eta conversion
- etherealization — The act or process of etherealizing.
- ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
- excommunication — The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
- excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- experimentation — The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
- extemporisation — Alternative spelling of extemporization.
- extemporization — The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
- extensification — The process of making something (more) extensive.
- extensivization — the process of (something) becoming more extensive, esp in agriculture
- exteriorisation — Mental awareness of the form of something that cannot be directly visualised.
- exteriorization — The physical embodiment of an abstraction.
- externalisation — Alternative spelling of externalization.
- externalization — A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
- extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
- eye examination — an eye test
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
- familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- fast-food chain — a chain of restaurants serving fast food
- fatal exception — (programming, operating system) A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
- ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
- field of vision — the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
- fifth dimension — a theoretical dimension beyond or in addition to a fourth dimension.