15-letter words containing c, d, m
- cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
- carding machine — card2 (defs 1, 2).
- cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
- casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
- 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).
- catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
- chanson d'amour — love song.
- chatham islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, forming a county of South Island, New Zealand: consists of the main islands of Chatham, Pitt, and several rocky islets. Chief settlement: Waitangi. Pop: 609 (2006 est). Area: 963 sq km (372 sq miles)
- chef de mission — the head of a diplomatic body
- chenopodium oil — a colorless or yellowish oil obtained from the seeds and leaves of Mexican tea, used chiefly in medicine as an agent for killing or expelling intestinal worms.
- child endowment — a social security payment for dependent children
- children's home — care institution for minors
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- choledochostomy — formation of a temporary opening through the abdominal wall into the common bile duct, usually to remove stones.
- chondrosarcomas — Plural form of chondrosarcoma.
- chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
- chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
- chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- citrus red mite — a large mite, Panonychus citri, that is an important pest of citrus.
- 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.
- clamp down (on) — to become more strict (with)
- climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
- cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
- code management — source code management
- codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
- combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
- come to no good — to come to a bad end; end in failure, trouble, etc.
- command economy — In a command economy, business activities and the use of resources are decided by the government, and not by market forces.
- commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
- commercial code — a telegraphic code designed to convey a message with a minimum number of words and thereby reduce toll costs.
- committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
- commodification — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- commoditization — The transformation of something into a commodity.
- commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
- common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
- common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
- common-isdn-api — Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
- compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
- completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
- complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
- compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
- compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
- comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
- compressed slip — (networking) (CSLIP) VanJacobsen TCP header compression. A version of SLIP using compression. CSLIP has no effect on the data portion of the packet and has nothing to do with compression by modem. It does reduce the TCP header from 40 bytes to 7 bytes, a noticeable difference when doing telnet with lots of little packets. CSLIP has no effect on UDP, only TCP.