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15-letter words containing d, a, p

  • autotetraploidy — the generation of the tetraploid state, created by the fusing of two nuclei from the same species
  • bad housekeeper — a person who is not an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
  • bandpass filter — A bandpass filter is a filter designed to pass all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • barium peroxide — a gray-white powder, BaO2, used as a bleach and in making hydrogen peroxide
  • ben day process — a method of adding texture, shading, or detail to line drawings by overlaying a transparent sheet of dots or any other pattern during platemaking
  • beyond the pale — If you think that someone's actions or behaviour are not acceptable, you can say that they are beyond the pale.
  • billiard parlor — poolroom (def 1).
  • birch partridge — ruffed grouse
  • bird of passage — If you refer to someone as a bird of passage, you mean that they are staying in a place for a short time before going to another place.
  • bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • bitmapped image — a computer image that is held in memory as a series of colored dots in a grid, each dot represented by one or more bits.
  • bits and pieces — You can use bits and pieces or bits and bobs to refer to a collection of different things.
  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • board of parole — an agency that determines which prisoners are to be released on parole
  • boiled potatoes — potatoes, usually peeled, cooked in boiling water
  • braille display — (hardware)   (Or "refreshable braille display", "refreshable display") An electromechanical device that renders braille with tiny, independently controlled pins used to represent the state of dots in braille cells. Each pin, in its "on" state, raises above the top of its hole in the screen; in its "off" state, it drops below the top of its hole. Older systems used tiny solenoids to control the state of the pins; modern systems are piezoelectric. Typical dimensions of a braille display are 1 line of 40 cells, each cell of two-by-eight dots.
  • break-in period — a period during which certain restrictions or moderation in operating should be followed, as the avoidance of high speed, rapid acceleration, or severe braking for a new automobile.
  • butter spreader — a small knife with a wide, flat blade, as for spreading butter on bread or rolls.
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • cache la poudre — a river in N Colorado, flowing N and E to the South Platte River. 126 miles (203 km) long.
  • calf diphtheria — a disease of the throat in young calves caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum, resulting in breathing difficulty and a painful cough
  • camphorated oil — a liniment consisting of camphor and peanut oil, used as a counterirritant
  • cardinal points — the four main points of the compass: north, south, east, and west
  • cardinal spider — a large house spider, Tegenaria parietina
  • cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
  • cartridge paper — an uncoated type of drawing or printing paper, usually made from bleached sulphate wood pulp with an addition of esparto grass
  • casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
  • celandine poppy — a poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, of the east-central U.S., having one pair of deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
  • cephalochordate — any chordate animal of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a fishlike body and no vertebral column; lancelet
  • chandler period — the period of the oscillation (Chandler wobble) of the earth's axis, varying between 416 and 433 days.
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • chop and change — When people chop and change, they keep changing their minds about what to do or how to act.
  • chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
  • chorale prelude — a composition for organ using a chorale as a cantus firmus or as the basis for variations
  • christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
  • clamp down (on) — to become more strict (with)
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • clouded leopard — a feline, Neofelis nebulosa, of SE Asia and Indonesia with a yellowish-brown coat marked with darker spots and blotches
  • common-isdn-api — Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
  • completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
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