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15-letter words containing a, d, u, s, t, e

  • achieved status — the social position a person gains as a result of personal effort.
  • adjustable-rate — designating or of a debt obligation, esp. a mortgage on real property, having terms which allow the interest rate to change over time
  • admiralty house — the official residence of the Governor General of Australia, in Sydney
  • adventuresomely — In an adventuresome manner.
  • adventurousness — the quality of being adventurous
  • arrest judgment — to stay proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
  • ascribed status — the social position assigned to a person on the basis of kinship, ethnic group, sex, etc.
  • assistant judge — a person who assists a judge in their work or who is not yet fully qualified as a judge
  • assured tenancy — an agreement between a government-approved body such as a housing association and a tenant for occupation of a newly-built house or flat at an agreed market rent, under which the tenant has security of tenure
  • attitude survey — a survey of the opinions held by a particular group of people
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • augmented sixth — an interval greater than a major sixth by a chromatic half step.
  • autodestructive — likely to cause one's own destruction
  • autoschediastic — offhand, with little forethought or preparation
  • basic autocoder — Early system on IBM 7070. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • basidiomycetous — belonging or pertaining to the basidiomycetes.
  • beast of burden — A beast of burden is an animal such as an ox or a donkey that is used for carrying or pulling things.
  • beat the bounds — (formerly) to define the boundaries of a parish by making a procession around them and hitting the ground with rods
  • blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • buried treasure — A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is. Used sarcastically, because what is found is anything *but* treasure. Buried treasure almost always needs to be dug up and removed. "I just found that the scheduler sorts its queue using bubble sort! Buried treasure!"
  • butter spreader — a small knife with a wide, flat blade, as for spreading butter on bread or rolls.
  • butter-and-eggs — any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
  • buttress thread — a screw thread having one flank that is vertical while the other is inclined, and a flat top and bottom: used in machine tools and designed to withstand heavy thrust in one direction
  • cadmium sulfate — a water-soluble compound, CdSO 4 , of colorless crystals, used as an antiseptic.
  • calculated risk — a chance of failure, the probability of which is estimated before some action is undertaken.
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • castellated nut — a nut that has indentations similar to battlements
  • 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).
  • central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
  • character study — a work of fiction in which the delineation of the central character's personality is more important than the plot.
  • charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
  • chinese mustard — brown mustard.
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • closed fracture — simple fracture.
  • contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
  • cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
  • daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
  • danse du ventre — belly dance
  • decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
  • decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • definite clause — (logic)   A Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • deindustrialise — Alternative spelling of deindustrialize.
  • deindustrialize — to reduce the importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of (a nation or area)
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
  • desexualization — The act or process of desexualizing.
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.

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