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16-letter words containing a, i, r, d, u

  • cardiac neurosis — an anxiety reaction characterized by quick fatigue, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, and other cardiac symptoms, but not caused by disease of the heart.
  • cardinal numbers — Also called cardinal numeral. any of the numbers that express amount, as one, two, three, etc. (distinguished from ordinal number).
  • cardinal virtues — the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude
  • careers guidance — advice and information about careers that helps individuals, esp young people, decide on a career and also teaches them how to pursue their chosen career
  • cedar revolution — the popular protests in 2005 that brought down the Lebanese cabinet and prompted Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon
  • chevaux-de-frise — plural of cheval-de-frise.
  • churidar pyjamas — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
  • circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
  • clarified butter — butter with the water and milk solids removed, used for cooking at high temperatures without burning
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • coram non judice — before a court lacking the authority to hear and decide the case in question.
  • cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  • curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
  • currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
  • currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • david g farragut — David Glasgow, 1801–70, U.S. admiral: won the battles of New Orleans and Mobile Bay for the Union in the U.S. Civil War.
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • decimal currency — a system of currency in which the monetary units are parts or powers of ten
  • deferred annuity — an annuity that commences not less than one year after the final purchase premium
  • deindustrialised — Simple past tense and past participle of deindustrialise.
  • deindustrialized — Simple past tense and past participle of deindustrialize.
  • denaturalization — The act or process of denaturalizing, of changing or destroying the quality (nature) of a thing.
  • dental insurance — Dental insurance is insurance that pays for treatment by a dentist.
  • denuclearization — The act or process of denuclearizing.
  • departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
  • depleted uranium — Depleted uranium is a type of uranium that is used in some bombs.
  • depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
  • deuterocanonical — of or constituting a second or subsequent canon; specif., designating certain Biblical books accepted as canonical in the Roman Catholic Church, but held by Protestants to be apocryphal
  • diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
  • diesel-hydraulic — a locomotive driven by a diesel engine through hydraulic transmission and torque converters
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • dinosaurs mating — (humour)   The activity said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
  • discussion board — a website or section of a website that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages: You should post your questions on a parenting message board and get support from other parents.
  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
  • distributionally — In a distributional manner.
  • distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
  • diurnal parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
  • divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • double solitaire — a game of solitaire for two persons, each player usually having a pack and layout but pooling foundations with the opponent.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
  • drug trafficking — smuggling illegal drugs
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