15-letter words containing d, a, n, t
- cottonseed cake — cotton cake.
- cottonseed meal — the residue of cottonseed kernels from which oil has been extracted, used as fodder or fertilizer
- counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
- counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- 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.
- cradle snatcher — someone who marries or has an affair with a much younger person
- credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
- credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
- creditor nation — a nation that owes less to foreign and international bodies than they owe to it
- crescent-shaped — having the shape of a crescent
- crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
- currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
- cyclopentadiene — a colourless liquid unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon obtained in the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons and the distillation of coal tar: used in the manufacture of plastics and insecticides. Formula: C5H6
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
- danse du ventre — belly dance
- dark adaptation — the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- data collection — the process of gathering information or data
- data dictionary — an index of data held in a database and used to assist in the access to data
- data link layer — (networking) Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
- data link level — data link layer
- 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
- data redundancy — (data, communications, storage) Any technique that stores or transmits extra, derived data that can be used to detect or repair errors, either in hardware or software. Examples are parity bits and the cyclic redundancy check. If the cost of errors is high enough, e.g. in a safety-critical system, redundancy may be used in both hardware AND software with three separate computers programmed by three separate teams ("triple redundancy") and some system to check that they all produce the same answer, or some kind of majority voting system. The term is not typically used for other, less beneficial, duplication of data. 2. (communications) The proportion of a message's gross information content that can be eliminated without losing essential information. Technically, redundancy is one minus the ratio of the actual uncertainty to the maximum uncertainty. This is the fraction of the structure of the message which is determined not by the choice of the sender, but rather by the accepted statistical rules governing the choice of the symbols in question.
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
- day in, day out — If you say that something happens day in, day out or day in and day out, you mean that it happens regularly over a long period of time.
- day of judgment — Judgment Day
- daylight saving — the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.
- de-unionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
- deacidification — a procedure that is carried out to lessen the level of acid present in paper
- 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
- dead-end street — a street blocked at one end
- deadman's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
- death in venice — a novella (1913) by Thomas Mann.
- debathification — The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of Iraq from the military and civil office following the ousting of w Saddam Hussein.
- decalcification — the act or process of decalcifying.
- decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
- decedent estate — the estate left by a decedent.
- deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
- decertification — The act or process of decertifying.
- 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