15-letter words containing c, o, d, i, e, s
- concession road — (esp in Ontario) one of a series of roads separating concessions in a township
- condescendingly — In a condescending manner.
- condition codes — a set of single bits that indicate specific conditions within a computer. The values of the condition codes are often determined by the outcome of a prior software operation and their principal use is to govern choices between alternative instruction sequences
- confidence test — (testing) Tests to confirm that the results of a program lie within certain ranges according to the expected probability distribution.
- conjoined twins — twin babies born joined together at some point, such as at the hips. Some have lived for many years without being surgically separated
- considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- 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.
- contact details — the information required to contact someone, such as an address or telephone number
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
- correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
- corticosteroids — Plural form of corticosteroid.
- coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
- cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
- 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
- cut (up) didoes — to behave in mischievous or silly way
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- dealer's choice — a card game, as poker, in which the dealer decides what particular game is to be played, often depending on the number of players, and designates any special variations or unusual rules, including setting the stakes.
- decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
- decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
- decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
- decollate snail — a cone-shaped, burrowing snail, Rumina decollata, that feeds on common brown garden snails.
- decommissioning — the act of decommissioning something
- decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
- decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
- decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
- decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
- delmonico steak — club steak
- demassification — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demystification — to rid of mystery or obscurity; clarify: to demystify medical procedures.
- dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
- deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
- dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
- desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
- descending node — the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the south (opposed to ascending node).
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
- design recovery — (process) A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
- desocialization — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
- desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
- detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.