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13-letter words containing c, e, d

  • donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
  • double bounce — (of the ball in tennis, table tennis, etc) two bounces on the same side of the net before a return
  • double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
  • double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
  • double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
  • downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
  • dresden china — porcelain ware produced at Meissen, Germany, near Dresden, after 1710.
  • dressing case — a small piece of luggage for carrying toilet articles, medicine, etc.
  • dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
  • dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
  • drilling crew — The drilling crew are the people who operate a drilling rig.
  • driving force — impetus
  • dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
  • dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
  • dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
  • duc d'enghien — Duc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
  • duck-egg blue — a pale greenish-blue colour
  • due diligence — the degree of care that is to be reasonably expected or that is legally required, esp. of persons giving professional advice
  • due-diligence — reasonable care and caution exercised by a person who is buying, selling, giving professional advice, etc., especially as required by law to protect against incurring liability: The court said there was due diligence on the part of the plaintiff.
  • duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • dyer's rocket — weld2 .
  • dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
  • dynamic scope — (language)   In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
  • dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
  • easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • economic good — a commodity or service that can be utilized to satisfy human wants and that has exchange value.
  • economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
  • edam (cheese) — a mild, yellow cheese, made in a round mold and usually having a coating of red paraffin
  • eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
  • edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
  • educationally — pertaining to education.
  • educationists — Plural form of educationist.
  • eggs benedict — dish of poached eggs, ham and cream
  • electioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of electioneer.
  • electrodermal — Of or relating to measurement of the electrical conductivity of the skin, especially as an indicator of someone’s emotional responses.
  • electroformed — Produced, or modified by electroforming.
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