15-letter words containing a, n, d, m, i, c
- nickel and dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- nickel-and-dime — of little or no importance; trivial; petty: a nickel-and-dime business that soon folded.
- nondiscriminate — Not discriminate.
- nonmatriculated — not matriculated, not enrolled in an institution, esp a college or university
- nonmelodramatic — Not melodramatic.
- of mice and men — a novel (1937) and play (1938) by John Steinbeck.
- omnidirectional — sending or receiving signals in all directions: an omnidirectional microphone.
- orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
- ordinary income — taxable income, as salary and wages, other than capital gains.
- organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
- pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
- palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- patent medicine — a medicine sold without a prescription in drugstores or by sales representatives, and usually protected by a trademark.
- phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
- pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
- redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- retained income — retained earnings.
- richard hamming — (person) Professor Richard Wesley Hamming (1915-02-11 - 1998-01-07). An American mathematician known for his work in information theory (notably error detection and correction), having invented the concepts of Hamming code, Hamming distance, and Hamming window. Richard Hamming received his B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1937, his M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1939, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1942. In 1945 Hamming joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. In 1946, after World War II, Hamming joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories where he worked with both Shannon and John Tukey. He worked there until 1976 when he accepted a chair of computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California. Hamming's fundamental paper on error-detecting and error-correcting codes ("Hamming codes") appeared in 1950. His work on the IBM 650 leading to the development in 1956 of the L2 programming language. This never displaced the workhorse language L1 devised by Michael V Wolontis. By 1958 the 650 had been elbowed aside by the 704. Although best known for error-correcting codes, Hamming was primarily a numerical analyst, working on integrating differential equations and the Hamming spectral window used for smoothing data before Fourier analysis. He wrote textbooks, propounded aphorisms ("the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers"), and was a founder of the ACM and a proponent of open-shop computing ("better to solve the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way."). In 1968 he was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and awarded the Turing Prize from the Association for Computing Machinery. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded Hamming the Emanuel R Piore Award in 1979 and a medal in 1988.
- romantic comedy — a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.
- sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
- seeding machine — a machine for sowing seeds
- self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
- semicylindrical — of, relating to, or having the shape of a semicylinder
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- simplicidentate — belonging or pertaining to the Simplicidentata, formerly regarded as a suborder or division of rodents having only one pair of upper incisor teeth.
- social dynamics — the study of social processes, especially social change.
- suicide machine — a device designed to permit a terminally ill person to commit suicide, as by the automatic injection of a lethal drug.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- trichomonacidal — relating to a trichomonacide
- truman doctrine — the policy of President Truman, as advocated in his address to Congress on March 12, 1947, to provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and, by extension, to any country threatened by Communism or any totalitarian ideology.
- un-romanticized — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- unaccommodating — easy to deal with; eager to help or please; obliging.
- unearned income — income received from property, as interest, dividends, or the like.
- unidiomatically — in a way that is not idiomatic
- vending machine — a coin-operated machine for selling small articles, beverages, etc.