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16-letter words containing d, e, s, c, r

  • academic advisor — a faculty member who helps and advises students on academic matters, such as planning their academic career
  • accordion pleats — tiny knife pleats
  • accrued expenses — an expense which has been incurred but has not yet been paid
  • accrued interest — interest which has been earned since an investment was made or since a previous interest payment
  • acid house party — a professionally organized party for young people, with Acid House music, sometimes held in a field or disused building
  • acorn archimedes — Archimedes
  • acoustic torpedo — a torpedo guided by sound that either emanates from the target or is emitted by the torpedo and bounces off the target.
  • across the board — If a policy or a situation applies across the board, it affects everything or everyone in a particular group.
  • across-the-board — applying to all employees, members, groups, or categories; general: The across-the-board pay increase means a raise for all employees.
  • actinodermatitis — dermatitis from exposure to radiation, esp ultraviolet light or X-rays
  • additive process — a photographic process in which the desired colours are produced by adding together appropriate proportions of three primary colours
  • adjective phrase — An adjective phrase or adjectival phrase is a group of words based on an adjective, such as 'very nice' or 'interested in football.' An adjective phrase can also consist simply of an adjective.
  • administratrices — Plural form of administratrix.
  • advisory teacher — a teacher who visits schools to advise teachers on curriculum developments within a particular subject area
  • amebic dysentery — a form of dysentery caused by an amoeba (Entamoeba histolytica)
  • american mustard — a mild yellow mustard
  • amusement arcade — An amusement arcade is a place where you can play games on machines which work when you put money in them.
  • anabolic steroid — Anabolic steroids are drugs which people, especially athletes, take to make their muscles bigger and to give them more strength.
  • anode dark space — the dark region between the anode glow and the anode in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • anode resistance — (of a vacuum tube at a given level of output) the ratio of a small change in voltage of the anode to the corresponding small change in anode current.
  • answer-back code — a unique code that identifies the telex machine to which a message is sent
  • apple of discord — a golden apple inscribed "For the fairest". It was claimed by Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, to whom Paris awarded it, thus beginning a chain of events that led to the Trojan War
  • applied research — research that is put to practical use
  • armed forces day — the third Saturday in May, observed in some areas of the U.S. as a holiday in honor of all branches of the armed forces.
  • arsenic trioxide — a white poisonous powder used in the manufacture of glass and as an insecticide, rat poison, and weedkiller. Formula: As2O3
  • ascending rhythm — rising rhythm.
  • ask for feedback — If you ask for feedback, you ask someone, such as a guest in a hotel, to tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • associate degree — An associate degree is a college degree that is awarded to a student who has completed a two-year course of study.
  • aston dark space — the dark region between the cathode and the cathode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • athanasian creed — a profession of faith widely used in the Western Church which, although formerly attributed to Athanasius, probably originated in Gaul between 381 and 428 ad
  • atmospheric tide — a movement of atmospheric masses caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon and by daily solar heating.
  • audience figures — the number of people regularly watching a television programme or listening to a radio programme
  • auditory vesicle — the pouch that is formed by the invagination of an ectodermal placode and that develops into the internal ear.
  • back-seat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a back-seat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice.
  • background noise — any type of noise that is not the sound that you are specifically listening to or monitoring
  • balearic islands — a group of islands in the W Mediterranean, consisting of Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera, Cabrera, and 11 islets: a province of Spain. Capital: Palma, on Majorca. Pop: 1 071 500 (2003 est). Area: 5012 sq km (1935 sq miles)
  • basic dichromate — an orange-red, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, Bi 2 O 3 ⋅2CrO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment in paints.
  • bastard culverin — a 16th-century cannon, smaller than a culverin, firing a shot of between 5 and 8 pounds (11 and 17.6 kg).
  • bearish tendency — a tendency for share prices to fall
  • block-structured — (language)   Any programming language in which sections of source code contained within pairs of matching delimiters such as "" and "" (e.g. in C) or "begin" and "end" (e.g. Algol) are executed as a single unit. A block of code may be the body of a subroutine or function, or it may be controlled by conditional execution (if statement) or repeated execution (while statement, for statement, etc.). In all but the most primitive block structured languages a variable's scope can be limited to the block in which it is declared. Block-structured languages support structured programming where each block can be written without detailed knowledge of the inner workings of other blocks, thus allowing a top-down design approach. See also abstract data type, module.
  • bordelaise sauce — a dark sauce made from meat stock, flour, wine, onions, seasonings, etc., served over broiled meat
  • border leicester — a breed of sheep originally developed in the border country between Scotland and England by crossing English Leicesters with Cheviots: large numbers in Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand. It has a long white fleece with no wool on the head
  • bouches-du-rhone — a department of S central France, in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Capital: Marseille. Pop: 1 883 645 (2003 est). Area: 5284 sq km (2047 sq miles)
  • braking distance — the distance a vehicle travels from the point at which its brakes are applied to the point at which it comes to a stop
  • canada bluegrass — a Eurasian grass, Poa compressa, naturalized in North America, having creeping rootstocks and bluish-green leaves.
  • canadian soldier — the mayfly.
  • canine distemper — distemper1 (def 1a).
  • capsule wardrobe — a collection of clothes and accessories that includes only items considered essential
  • carbon bisulfide — carbon disulfide
  • carbon disulfide — a heavy, volatile, colorless liquid, CS2, highly flammable and poisonous, used as a solvent, insecticide, etc.

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