15-letter words containing d, a, t, r, n
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
- program trading — trading on international stock exchanges using a computer program to exploit differences between stock index futures and actual share prices on world equity markets
- proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
- promotion board — group that markets or advertises sth
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- put a damper on — To put a damper on something means to have an effect on it which stops it being as enjoyable or as successful as it should be.
- quadripartition — A division into four parts.
- quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- quarter pounder — A quarter pounder is a hamburger that weighs four ounces before it is cooked. Four ounces is a quarter of a pound.
- quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
- qurnet es sauda — a mountain in N Lebanon, in the Lebanon Mountains: highest point in Lebanon. 10,131 feet (3090 meters).
- radar astronomy — the branch of astronomy that uses radar to map the surfaces of planetary bodies, as the moon and Venus, and to determine periods of rotation.
- radiant heating — the means of heating objects or persons by radiation in which the intervening air is not heated.
- radio astronomy — the branch of astronomy that utilizes extraterrestrial radiation in radio wavelengths rather than visible light for the study of the universe.
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiogoniometer — a device used to detect the direction of radio waves, consisting of a coil that is free to rotate within two fixed coils at right angles to each other
- radiogoniometry — the science of detecting the direction of radio waves
- radioprotection — protection against radiation
- radiosensitizer — a substance, as a drug, that enhances the sensitivity of tissues or cells to radiation therapy.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- re-adjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- re-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- reaccreditation — the act or process of reaccrediting something or someone
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
- recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
- reconsideration — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- redemonstration — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
- redetermination — the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose.
- rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
- redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
- reduction ratio — an expression of the number of times by which an original document has been reduced in a microcopy.
- refined fortran — (RF) Similar to Refined C. Research implementations only. "Refined Fortran: Another Sequential Language for Parallel Programming," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1986 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.184-191.
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- relational dbms — relational database
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
- repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
- retained income — retained earnings.
- retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
- reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78