15-letter words containing a, r, d
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- could care less — feel(s) the least possible degree of interest, sympathy, etc.
- counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
- counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
- covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
- cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
- crack down (on) — to become strict or stricter (with)
- cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
- cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
- cradle snatcher — someone who marries or has an affair with a much younger person
- cradle-to-grave — extending throughout one's life, from birth to death: a cradle-to-grave system of health care.
- cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
- cream-crackered — exhausted
- credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
- credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
- credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
- creditor nation — a nation that owes less to foreign and international bodies than they owe to it
- creme de cassis — a sweet, purplish-red liqueur flavored with black currants
- creme de fraise — a liqueur flavored principally with strawberries.
- crescent-shaped — having the shape of a crescent
- criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
- criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
- 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
- crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
- crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
- crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
- cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
- currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
- cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
- d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
- dadchelor party — a party primarily attended by men and held to honour and present gifts to a prospective father
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- 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.
- daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
- dairy ice cream — ice cream made from milk rather than artificial ingredients
- dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
- danse du ventre — belly dance
- dark adaptation — the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.
- dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
- dartmouth basic — (language) The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
- data dictionary — an index of data held in a database and used to assist in the access to data
- data link layer — (networking) Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.