15-letter words containing c, o, n, d, u
- consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
- contadora group — a group of four Latin American nations, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela, formed in January, 1983, to help solve the problems of the region.
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
- counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
- counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- countertendency — an opposite tendency
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- country dweller — a person who lives in the country
- cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
- cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
- cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
- dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
- dead-cat bounce — a temporary recovery in prices following a substantial fall as a result of speculators buying stocks they have already sold rather than as a result of a genuine reversal of the downward trend
- dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
- debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
- debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
- decommunization — the act or process of decommunizing
- decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
- decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
- defence counsel — a barrister or group of barristers responsible for defending someone on trial
- defunct process — zombie process
- delta reduction — (theory) In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
- diamond cutting — the art or work of cutting and shaping rough diamonds to make them suitable for use by the jewellery trade
- dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- direct question — interrogative sentence
- disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
- discontinuation — a breach or interruption of continuity or unity: Progress was delayed by repeated discontinuations of work.
- discontinuities — Plural form of discontinuity.
- discontinuously — In a discontinuous manner; not continuously.
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- discountenanced — Simple past tense and past participle of discountenance.
- discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
- dithionous acid — an unstable dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of dithionite salts. It is a powerful reducing agent. Formula: H2S2O4