15-letter words containing c, m, d, r
- common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- 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.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- comrade in arms — a fellow soldier.
- comrade-in-arms — A comrade-in-arms is someone who has worked for the same cause or purpose as you and has shared the same difficulties and dangers.
- conductiometric — conductometric
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- control command — a keyed instruction conveyed to a computer by using the control key in conjunction with the standard keys
- copper-bottomed — If you describe something as copper-bottomed, you believe that it is certain to be successful.
- corday d'armont — (Marie Anne) Charlotte [muh-ree an shahr-luh t;; French ma-ree an shar-lawt] /məˈri æn ˈʃɑr lət;; French maˈri an ʃarˈlɔt/ (Show IPA), 1768–93, French Revolutionary heroine who assassinated Marat.
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- cream-crackered — exhausted
- credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
- creme de cassis — a sweet, purplish-red liqueur flavored with black currants
- creme de fraise — a liqueur flavored principally with strawberries.
- creme de menthe — a liqueur flavoured with peppermint, usually bright green in colour
- criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
- criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
- cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
- cry blue murder — to make an outcry
- cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
- cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
- dairy ice cream — ice cream made from milk rather than artificial ingredients
- 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.
- deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
- degree ceremony — a ceremony at which university degrees are awarded
- democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
- democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
- democratization — The introduction of democracy, its functions or principles, to an area or country which did not have democracy previously.
- demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
- dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
- diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
- diffractometric — Relating to diffractometry; measured using a diffractometer.
- disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
- disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
- disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
- disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings