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15-letter words containing a, d, p, t, e, c

  • accepted masons — a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
  • accordion pleat — one of a series of narrow, evenly spaced parallel pleats with alternating raised and recessed folds set into cloth or other material, usually by a commercial pleating machine.
  • acetophenetidin — phenacetin
  • adaptive optics — a technique used to increase the resolution of a ground-based astronomical telescope by counteracting the effects of the atmosphere on the image. A deforming mirror in the light path of the telescope maintains a pointlike image of the celestial body using either a real star or a laser beam as a reference
  • adjective group — An adjective group or adjectival group is a group of words based on an adjective, such as 'very nice' or 'interested in football'. An adjective group can also consist simply of an adjective.
  • adoption agency — an agency that matches children needing adoption with people willing to adopt
  • adrenoreceptors — Plural form of adrenoreceptor.
  • advance payment — a sum of money paid in advance as a part or the whole of the sum due
  • advocate depute — a Scottish law officer with the functions of public prosecutor
  • anti-productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • apostles' creed — a concise statement of Christian beliefs dating from about 500 ad, traditionally ascribed to the Apostles
  • arc de triomphe — the triumphal arch in Paris begun by Napoleon I to commemorate his victories of 1805–6 and completed in 1836
  • birch partridge — ruffed grouse
  • bits and pieces — You can use bits and pieces or bits and bobs to refer to a collection of different things.
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • calf diphtheria — a disease of the throat in young calves caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum, resulting in breathing difficulty and a painful cough
  • camphorated oil — a liniment consisting of camphor and peanut oil, used as a counterirritant
  • cartridge paper — an uncoated type of drawing or printing paper, usually made from bleached sulphate wood pulp with an addition of esparto grass
  • casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
  • centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
  • cephalochordate — any chordate animal of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a fishlike body and no vertebral column; lancelet
  • christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • connected graph — (mathematics)   A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
  • corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
  • cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
  • coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • crescent-shaped — having the shape of a crescent
  • critical period — a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards
  • cyclopentadiene — a colourless liquid unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon obtained in the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons and the distillation of coal tar: used in the manufacture of plastics and insecticides. Formula: C5H6
  • dadchelor party — a party primarily attended by men and held to honour and present gifts to a prospective father
  • dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
  • data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
  • data protection — (in Britain) safeguards for individuals relating to personal data stored on a computer
  • deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • deep-etch plate — an offset printing plate with an intaglio image filled with a substance that attracts ink to make it planographic.
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet

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