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15-letter words that end in t

  • digestive tract — alimentary canal
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • disentanglement — Removal of, or extrication from twists, tangles, complications or confusion.
  • disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
  • disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
  • dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
  • do someone dirt — to do something vicious to someone
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
  • drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • 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.
  • eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
  • 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
  • electric socket — a device on a wall where you can plug electrical equipment into the electricity supply
  • elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
  • elephant's-foot — a monocotyledonous plant, Testudinaria elephantipes, of southern Africa, with a very large starchy tuberous stem, covered in corky scales: family Dioscoreaceae
  • emancipationist — An advocate of the emancipation of slaves.
  • emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
  • entrance permit — a permit issued by the government of a country allowing nationals of other countries to enter
  • entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
  • expansion joint — structural feature: gap to allow for expansion or contraction
  • expense account — account for expenses
  • experientialist — A proponent of experientialism.
  • experimentalist — One who performs experiments.
  • extension light — a light on the end of a length of cable
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • false miterwort — foamflower.
  • familiar spirit — a supernatural spirit often assuming animal form, supposed to attend and aid a witch, wizard, etc
  • farmers' market — a market or group of stalls and booths where farmers and sometimes other vendors sell their products directly to consumers.
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • fifth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, providing chiefly that no person be required to testify against himself or herself in a criminal case and that no person be subjected to a second trial for an offense for which he or she has been duly tried previously.
  • fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
  • fight-or-flight — denoting instinctive response
  • fighting spirit — courage and determination expressed in a willingness to fight or struggle
  • figure of eight — figure eight.
  • figure of merit — a measure of the efficiency of a helicopter in hover
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