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19-letter words containing a, d, r, e, n

  • baader-meinhof gang — a group of left-wing West German terrorists, active in the 1970s, who were dedicated to the violent overthrow of capitalist society
  • bacillary dysentery — shigellosis.
  • balfour declaration — the statement made by Arthur Balfour in 1917 of British support for the setting up of a national home for the Jews in Palestine, provided that the rights of "existing non-Jewish communities" in Palestine could be safeguarded
  • bandar seri begawan — the capital of Brunei. Pop: 64 000 (2005 est)
  • barometric gradient — pressure gradient
  • batterie de cuisine — cooking utensils collectively; pots and pans, etc
  • battle-ground state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
  • behavioral medicine — an interdisciplinary field that uses the concepts and techniques of the behavioral sciences to improve physical and emotional health.
  • below par/under par — If you feel below par or under par, you feel tired and unable to perform as well as you normally do.
  • bend over backwards — to make a special effort, esp in order to please
  • bicarbonate of soda — Bicarbonate of soda is a white powder which is used in baking to make cakes rise, and also as a medicine for your stomach.
  • blood-brain barrier — the barrier created by the walls of the capillaries of the brain that prevents certain substances, as most proteins and drugs, from passing from the blood into the brain tissue and cerebrospinal fluid
  • blue-tongued lizard — a large Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, characterized by having a cobalt-blue tongue.
  • board certification — the process of certifying that a physician has passed an examination and met the standards of a professional organization representing a particular medical specialty.
  • board of trade unit — a unit of electrical energy equal to 1 kilowatt-hour
  • buildings insurance — insurance which covers buildings
  • bulbourethral gland — Cowper's gland
  • cannot very well do — If you say that you cannot very well do something, you mean that it would not be right or possible to do it.
  • capital expenditure — expenditure on acquisitions of or improvements to fixed assets
  • carbon dioxide snow — solid carbon dioxide, used as a refrigerant
  • cathodic protection — a technique for protecting metal structures, such as steel ships and pipelines, from electrolytic corrosion by making the structure the cathode in a cell, either by applying an electromotive force directly or by putting it into contact with a more electropositive metal
  • cerebellar syndrome — a disease of the cerebellum characterized by unsteady movements and mispronunciation of words
  • cerebrospinal fluid — the clear colourless fluid in the spaces inside and around the spinal cord and brain
  • chandrasekhar limit — the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf, equal to 1.44 solar masses. A star having a mass above this limit will continue to collapse to form a neutron star
  • chartered librarian — (in Britain) a librarian who has obtained a qualification from the Library Association in addition to a degree or diploma in librarianship
  • chassis dynamometer — A chassis dynamometer is a piece of test equipment fitted with rollers for the wheels of a vehicle, that is capable of providing drive input and measuring output such as power and torque at the wheels.
  • cherenkov radiation — the electromagnetic radiation produced when a charged particle moves through a medium at a greater velocity than the velocity of light in that medium
  • chicken-fried steak — a cheap cut of beefsteak that is fried in batter
  • chinese sacred lily — a Chinese amaryllidaceous plant, Narcissus tazetta orientalis, widely grown as a house plant for its fragrant yellow and white flowers
  • christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
  • chronological order — the arrangement of things following one after another in time: Put these documents in chronological order.
  • circular definition — a definition in which the definiendum (the expression being defined) or a variant of it appears in the definiens (the expression that defines it).
  • circulating decimal — repeating decimal
  • clandestine entrant — a person who hides in or on a vehicle as it enters the United Kingdom with the aim of avoiding immigration controls
  • clinical depression — depression in a patient that meets defined criteria and that is deemed to merit treatment
  • cloakroom attendant — a person whose job is to check coats and other personal items for visitors to a place
  • coefficient of drag — the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and surface area of the body.
  • command interpreter — (operating system)   A program which reads textual commands from the user or from a file and executes them. Some commands may be executed directly within the interpreter itself (e.g. setting variables or control constructs), others may cause it to load and execute other files. When an IBM PC is booted BIOS loads and runs the MS-DOS command interpreter into memory from file COMMAND.COM found on a floppy disk or hard disk drive. The commands that COMMAND.COM recognizes (e.g. COPY, DIR, PRN) are called internal commands, in contrast to external commands which are executable files.
  • command performance — A command performance is a special performance of a play or show which is given for a head of state.
  • commercially-minded — knowledgeable about business; interested in making money
  • comminuted fracture — a fracture in which the bone is splintered or fragmented
  • common de-nominator — Mathematics. a number that is a multiple of all the denominators of a set of fractions.
  • complete quadrangle — a plane figure consisting of four points connected by six lines
  • computer dictionary — Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  • concours d'elegance — a parade of cars or other vehicles, prizes being awarded to the most elegant, best designed, or best turned-out
  • confederate jasmine — star jasmine.
  • confidence interval — an interval of values bounded by confidence limits within which the true value of a population parameter is stated to lie with a specified probability
  • consultation period — a period during which consultations are held before a policy decision is made
  • contemplative order — a religious order whose members are devoted to prayer rather than works.
  • contra-guide rudder — a rudder having a horizontal offset of its upper and lower halves to improve the flow characteristics of the propeller race.
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