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15-letter words containing d, e, n, t, a, i

  • balanced ticket — a slate of candidates chosen to appeal to a wide range of voters, especially by including members of large regional, ethnic, or religious groups.
  • 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.
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
  • belted sandfish — a sea bass, Serranus subligarius, inhabiting warm, shallow waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • beta-adrenergic — pertaining to or involving beta receptors
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • bits and pieces — You can use bits and pieces or bits and bobs to refer to a collection of different things.
  • black and white — In a black and white photograph or film, everything is shown in black, white, and grey.
  • black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • brand extension — the practice of using a well-known brand name to promote new products or services in unrelated fields
  • bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
  • bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • cabin attendant — flight attendant.
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • calcined baryta — baryta (def 1).
  • calcined-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
  • cardinal beetle — any of various large N temperate beetles of the family Pyrochroidae, such as Pyrochroa serraticornis, typically scarlet or partly scarlet in colour
  • cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
  • cardinal virtue — anything considered to be an important or characteristic virtue: Tenacity is his cardinal virtue.
  • cartesian diver — a glass vessel partially filled with water and covered with an airtight membrane, containing a hollow object that is open at the bottom and contains just enough air to allow it to float. Pressing on the membrane compresses the air in the vessel and forces water into the object, causing it to sink; releasing the membrane causes it to rise.
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
  • cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
  • centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
  • central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
  • chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
  • chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
  • chinese mustard — brown mustard.
  • chorda tendinea — any of the tendons extending from the papillary muscles to the atrioventricular valves and preventing the valves from moving into the atria during ventricular contraction.
  • 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
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
  • clandestineness — The state or quality of being clandestine.
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
  • cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
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