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15-letter words containing c, l, e, p, d

  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • deep-etch plate — an offset printing plate with an intaglio image filled with a substance that attracts ink to make it planographic.
  • delivered price — a quoted price of merchandise, as steel, that includes freight charges from the basing point to the point of delivery, usually f.o.b.
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • descriptionless — Without a description.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • dolichocephalic — long-headed; having a cephalic index of 75 and under.
  • double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • electra paradox — the supposed paradox that one may know something to be true of an object under one description but not another, as when Electra knew that Orestes was her brother but not that the man before her was her brother although he was Orestes. This shows the predicate "knows" to be intensional, that Electra's knowledge here is de dicto, and that the statement of it yields an opaque context
  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
  • encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
  • epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
  • epidemiological — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
  • extended pascal — A superset of ANSI and ISO Pascal with many enhancements, including modules, separate compilation, type schemata, variable-length strings, direct-access files, complex numbers, initial values, constant expressions. ANSI/IEEE770X3.160-1989 and ISO 10206.
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
  • hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
  • hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
  • high-principled — possessing or displaying very high moral or ethical principles
  • hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
  • indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
  • kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
  • lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
  • lead-pipe cinch — an absolute certainty: It's a lead-pipe cinch they'll be there.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • leyland cypress — a fast-growing cypress, Cupressocyparis leylandii, that is a hybrid produced by crossing the macrocarpa with the Nootka cypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis): widely grown for hedging
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • lodgepole creek — a river in SE Wyoming, SW Nebraska, and NE Colorado, flowing E to the South Platte River. 212 miles (341 km) long.
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • mental handicap — learning disability
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
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