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15-letter words containing c, o, d

  • docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • doctor's degree — any of several academic degrees of the highest rank, as the Ph.D. or Ed.D., awarded by universities and some colleges for completing advanced work in graduate school or a professional school.
  • doctor's office — doctor's surgery
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
  • dodecanoic acid — lauric acid.
  • dodecasyllables — Plural form of dodecasyllable.
  • dolichocephalic — long-headed; having a cephalic index of 75 and under.
  • dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
  • domain calculus — (database)   A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
  • domestic animal — an animal, as the horse or cat, that has been tamed and kept by humans as a work animal, food source, or pet, especially a member of those species that have, through selective breeding, become notably different from their wild ancestors.
  • domestic system — a manufacturing system whereby workers make products in their own homes with materials supplied by entrepreneurs.
  • dominical altar — a high altar.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
  • 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
  • double-declutch — to change to a lower gear in a motor vehicle by first placing the gear lever into the neutral position before engaging the desired gear, at the same time releasing the clutch pedal and increasing the engine speed
  • downward closed — closure
  • drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
  • drift indicator — an instrument that indicates the amount of drift of an aircraft.
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
  • dynamic routing — (networking)   (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
  • dynamic scoping — dynamic scope
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dysmorphophobic — relating to or affected with dysmorphophobia
  • dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
  • eddystone rocks — a dangerous group of rocks at the W end of the English Channel, southwest of Plymouth: lighthouse
  • edict of nantes — a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
  • editio princeps — first edition.
  • editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
  • elaborated code — a way of talking which is explicit and does not assume that the listener shares the same assumptions and understandings as the speaker
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • elections judge — someone who oversees an election
  • 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.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodialytic — Relating to electrodialysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
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