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15-letter words containing d, e, c, a, p

  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • connected graph — (mathematics)   A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
  • cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
  • coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
  • cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • crescent-shaped — having the shape of a crescent
  • 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
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
  • cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
  • 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
  • d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
  • dadchelor party — a party primarily attended by men and held to honour and present gifts to a prospective father
  • dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
  • 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
  • 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.
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • 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
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decompositional — Of or pertaining to decomposition.
  • deep-etch plate — an offset printing plate with an intaglio image filled with a substance that attracts ink to make it planographic.
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
  • deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
  • dictation speed — a speed of speaking that enables someone to take down what is being said
  • disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
  • dolichocephalic — long-headed; having a cephalic index of 75 and under.
  • double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
  • electra paradox — the supposed paradox that one may know something to be true of an object under one description but not another, as when Electra knew that Orestes was her brother but not that the man before her was her brother although he was Orestes. This shows the predicate "knows" to be intensional, that Electra's knowledge here is de dicto, and that the statement of it yields an opaque context
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
  • epidemiological — Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
  • extended pascal — A superset of ANSI and ISO Pascal with many enhancements, including modules, separate compilation, type schemata, variable-length strings, direct-access files, complex numbers, initial values, constant expressions. ANSI/IEEE770X3.160-1989 and ISO 10206.
  • force de frappe — a military strike force, esp the independent nuclear strike force of France
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
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