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15-letter words containing a, c, r, u, e, d

  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
  • contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
  • corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
  • could care less — feel(s) the least possible degree of interest, sympathy, etc.
  • counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
  • cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
  • currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
  • cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
  • dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
  • 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.
  • debureaucratize — to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • delta reduction — (theory)   In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • 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
  • eurocheque card — a card that must be shown along with Eurocheques when using them to pay for goods or services. Eurocheque cards were withdrawn in 2002
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • extrajudicially — Outside of the legal system.
  • fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
  • fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • great barracuda — a large barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, of Atlantic and western Pacific seas.
  • hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
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