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16-letter words containing d, e, n, r

  • companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
  • condensed matter — crystalline and amorphous solids and liquids, including liquid crystals, glasses, polymers, and gels
  • confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
  • confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
  • confidence trick — A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.
  • confused elderly — old and no longer having mental abilities sufficient for independent living
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • constructed type — (types)   A type formed by applying some type constructor function to one or more other types. The usual constructions are functions: t1 -> t2, products: (t1, t2), sums: t1 + t2 and lifting: lift(t1). (In LaTeX, the lifted type is written with a subscript \perp). See also algebraic data type, primitive type.
  • consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
  • content provider — A content provider is a company that supplies material such as text, music, or images for use on websites.
  • contraindicative — Serving as a contraindication.
  • convertible bond — a bond that can be exchanged for a fixed number of shares of the common stock of the issuing company at the holder's option.
  • cops and robbers — a children's game in which a group of players imitate the behavior of police and of thieves, as in pursuing and capturing.
  • cops-and-robbers — A cops-and-robbers film, television programme, or book is one whose story involves the police trying to catch criminals.
  • coram non judice — before a court lacking the authority to hear and decide the case in question.
  • cordon sanitaire — a guarded line serving to cut off an infected area
  • core description — A core description is a summary of the information about a rock sample, found by core analysis.
  • corned beef hash — a dish consisting of corned beef chopped and mixed together with mashed potatoes and various other ingredients, then fried
  • coromandel coast — the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River
  • corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
  • correction fluid — a fluid, usually white, that can be painted over a mistake in writing or typing so that the correct form can be written or typed on top
  • costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
  • cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  • counter-tendency — a natural or prevailing disposition to move, proceed, or act in some direction or toward some point, end, or result: the tendency of falling bodies toward the earth.
  • counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
  • couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy
  • cracked fraction — A cracked fraction is a petroleum fraction (= a portion separated according to a physical property) that has been broken down from a fraction with larger molecules.
  • creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
  • creme de bananes — a liqueur flavored with bananas.
  • critical density — the density of matter that would be required to halt the expansion of the universe
  • cross one's mind — to occur to one briefly or suddenly
  • crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
  • croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
  • cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
  • curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
  • curried function — (mathematics, programming)   A function of N arguments that is considered as a function of one argument which returns another function of N-1 arguments. E.g. in Haskell we can define: average :: Int -> (Int -> Int) (The parentheses are optional). A partial application of average, to one Int, e.g. (average 4), returns a function of type (Int -> Int) which averages its argument with 4. In uncurried languages a function must always be applied to all its arguments but a partial application can be represented using a lambda abstraction: \ x -> average(4,x) Currying is necessary if full laziness is to be applied to functional sub-expressions. It was named after the logician Haskell Curry but the 19th-century logician, Gottlob Frege was the first to propose it and it was first referred to in ["Uber die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik", M. Schoenfinkel, Mathematische Annalen. Vol 92 (1924)]. Stefan Kahrs <[email protected]> reported hearing somebody in Germany trying to introduce "scho"nen" for currying and "finkeln" for "uncurrying". The verb "scho"nen" means "to beautify"; "finkeln" isn't a German word, but it suggests "to fiddle".
  • currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
  • cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
  • dangling pointer — (programming)   A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
  • dark of the moon — the period during which the moon is not visible.
  • darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
  • darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • data preparation — the process of converting data or information into a form that can be read by a computer, so that the data can then be entered into the computer
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • database manager — a person in charge of designing, maintaining, and controlling a database
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
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