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15-letter words containing a, d, h, o, c

  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • dealer's choice — a card game, as poker, in which the dealer decides what particular game is to be played, often depending on the number of players, and designates any special variations or unusual rules, including setting the stakes.
  • debathification — The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of Iraq from the military and civil office following the ousting of w Saddam Hussein.
  • decatyl alcohol — decanol.
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • demythification — the act of demythifying
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • derhotacization — A distortion in (or an Inability to pronounce) the sound of letter R, causing the R to be omitted as a consonant or changing /\u025d/ or /\u025a/ to /\u025c/,/\u0259/, or another vowel if a vocalic.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • diadochokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
  • dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
  • dichotomisation — Alternative spelling of dichotomization.
  • dichotomization — The act of dichotomizing or the thing dichotomized; classification.
  • dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
  • dithionous acid — an unstable dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of dithionite salts. It is a powerful reducing agent. Formula: H2S2O4
  • doch-an-dorrach — a stirrup cup.
  • docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • dolichocephalic — long-headed; having a cephalic index of 75 and under.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
  • eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • 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
  • fast-food chain — a chain of restaurants serving fast food
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • 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.
  • gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
  • hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • heart condition — cardiac disorder
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
  • hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
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