15-letter words containing c, o, r, d, i, t
- committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
- commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
- common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- conductiometric — conductometric
- 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.
- contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contradictorily — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
- contraindicated — not advisable because of contraindications
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- cooktown orchid — a purple Australian orchid, Dendrobium bigibbum, found in Queensland, of which it is the floral emblem
- coordinate bond — a type of covalent chemical bond in which both the shared electrons are provided by one of the atoms
- corn-root aphid — an aphid, Anuraphis maidiradicis, that lives as a symbiont in colonies of cornfield ants and feeds on the roots of corn: an agricultural pest.
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- corticosteroids — Plural form of corticosteroid.
- costochondritis — (medicine) A benign inflammation of the costal cartilage, causing pain between the ribs.
- cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
- counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
- 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.
- creditor nation — a nation that owes less to foreign and international bodies than they owe to it
- critical period — a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards
- crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
- crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
- 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)
- 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.
- data dictionary — an index of data held in a database and used to assist in the access to data
- 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.
- data protection — (in Britain) safeguards for individuals relating to personal data stored on a computer
- decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- decertification — The act or process of decertifying.
- decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
- deconcentrating — Present participle of deconcentrate.
- deconcentration — the act of decentralizing or the state of becoming less concentrated in one area
- decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
- 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)
- 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.
- dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
- denitrification — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
- derhotacization — A distortion in (or an Inability to pronounce) the sound of letter R, causing the R to be omitted as a consonant or changing /\u025d/ or /\u025a/ to /\u025c/,/\u0259/, or another vowel if a vocalic.
- 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