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15-letter words containing d, a, t, r, n

  • interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • interpenetrated — Simple past tense and past participle of interpenetrate.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
  • intra-abdominal — being within the abdomen.
  • intraindividual — Occurring within an individual.
  • intramyocardial — Into or within the myocardium.
  • inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • invitation card — a card given to someone to invite them to something
  • ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
  • keynote address — a speech, as at a political convention, that presents important issues, principles, policies, etc.
  • kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
  • kronecker delta — a function of two variables, i and j, which equals 1 when the variables have the same value, i = j, and equals 0 when the variables have different values, i ≠ j.
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • lantern gurnard — a type of gurnard
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
  • leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
  • leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
  • learner-centred — focussed on the learner rather than the teacher
  • least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • library edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
  • limited partner — special partner.
  • living standard — standard of living.
  • lord lieutenant — British. the title of various high officials holding authority deputed from a sovereign.
  • lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • maidenhair tree — ginkgo.
  • maidenhair-tree — ginkgo.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • managing editor — an editor assigned to the supervision and coordination of certain editorial activities of a newspaper, magazine, book publishing company, or the like. Abbreviation: M.E., m.e.
  • mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
  • maternity dress — a dress worn by a pregnant woman and which is designed to allow for the changes in body size which take place during pregnancy
  • maundy thursday — the Thursday of Holy Week, commemorating Jesus' Last Supper and His washing of the disciples' feet upon that day.
  • media converter — (networking)   A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
  • medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
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