15-letter words that end in y
- counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
- counterstrategy — a strategy designed to counter the effectiveness of another strategy or action
- countertendency — an opposite tendency
- couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
- course of study — an extended period of organized study, often leading to a qualification
- court of equity — a court having jurisdiction in equity or administering justice in accordance with the principles of equity.
- cranborne money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Lords to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1996
- crepuscular ray — a twilight ray of sunlight shining through breaks in high clouds and illuminating dust particles in the air.
- crisis theology — a neoorthodox theology, advocated by Karl Barth and others, emphasizing the absolute necessity of faith and divine revelation in transcending the personal crisis, common to all humankind, that arises from the contradictions inherent in human nature and in the social order.
- crossreactivity — Alternative spelling of cross-reactivity.
- crystallography — the science concerned with the formation, properties, and structure of crystals
- current density — the ratio of the electric current flowing at a particular point in a conductor to the cross-sectional area of the conductor taken perpendicular to the current flow at that point. It is measured in amperes per square metre
- cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
- cycling holiday — a holiday in which one cycles between destinations
- cytogenetically — (medicine, biology) By means or in terms of cytogenetics, the genetics of the cell.
- cytoplasmically — by means of a cytoplasm
- dadchelor party — a party primarily attended by men and held to honour and present gifts to a prospective father
- data dictionary — an index of data held in a database and used to assist in the access to data
- data redundancy — (data, communications, storage) Any technique that stores or transmits extra, derived data that can be used to detect or repair errors, either in hardware or software. Examples are parity bits and the cyclic redundancy check. If the cost of errors is high enough, e.g. in a safety-critical system, redundancy may be used in both hardware AND software with three separate computers programmed by three separate teams ("triple redundancy") and some system to check that they all produce the same answer, or some kind of majority voting system. The term is not typically used for other, less beneficial, duplication of data. 2. (communications) The proportion of a message's gross information content that can be eliminated without losing essential information. Technically, redundancy is one minus the ratio of the actual uncertainty to the maximum uncertainty. This is the fraction of the structure of the message which is determined not by the choice of the sender, but rather by the accepted statistical rules governing the choice of the symbols in question.
- dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
- decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
- decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
- degree ceremony — a ceremony at which university degrees are awarded
- demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
- demonstratively — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
- dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
- dendrohydrology — The science that uses dendrochronology to investigate and reconstruct hydrologic processes, such as river flow and past lake levels.
- design recovery — (process) A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
- destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
- detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- determinability — the quality of being determinable
- developmentally — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
- diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
- dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
- diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
- disappointingly — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
- disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
- discontinuously — In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
- dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
- disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
- disinterestedly — unbiased by personal interest or advantage; not influenced by selfish motives: a disinterested decision by the referee.
- dispassionately — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
- dispositionally — In a dispositional manner.
- disquisitionary — of or relating to a disquisition
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.