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16-letter words containing d, e, t, r, a

  • chiclet keyboard — (hardware, abuse)   A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of Chiclets chewing gum. Used especially to describe the original IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early portable and laptop computers were launched with them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not often seen on anything larger than a digital watch any more.
  • childcare center — a place or business offering childcare for working parents
  • chloracetic acid — chloroacetic acid.
  • chlorinated lime — bleaching powder.
  • christmas dinner — the main meal on Christmas day, eaten any time in the afternoon or evening
  • cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
  • circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
  • city of aberdeen — a council area in NE Scotland, established in 1996. Pop: 206 600 (2003 est). Area: 186 sq km (72 sq miles)
  • clarified butter — butter with the water and milk solids removed, used for cooking at high temperatures without burning
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • clearsightedness — The property of being clearsighted.
  • clermont-ferrand — a city in S central France: capital of Puy-de-Dôme department; industrial centre. Pop: 140 957 (2011)
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
  • cluster headache — a type of recurrent headache characterized by sudden onset and intense pain on one side of the face near the eye
  • co-determination — a system of industrial management in which workers share responsibility for the operation of a company, as through elected representation on a corporate supervisory board
  • code of practice — A code of practice is a set of written rules which explains how people working in a particular profession should behave.
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • college graduate — a student who has recently graduated from college
  • colorado plateau — a plateau in the SW United States, in N Arizona, NW New Mexico, S Utah, and SW Colorado: location of the Grand Canyon.
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • 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.
  • considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
  • container garden — a collection of pots or other receptacles containing soil for growing plants out of doors
  • contraindicative — Serving as a contraindication.
  • cordon sanitaire — a guarded line serving to cut off an infected area
  • coromandel coast — the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River
  • corporate ladder — the hierarchy of posts with a particular corporation or corporations in general
  • corporate raider — A corporate raider is a person or organization that tries to take control of a company by buying a large number of its shares.
  • corrugated paper — a packaging material made from layers of heavy paper, the top layer of which is grooved and ridged
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cracked up to be — alleged or believed to be
  • crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
  • crested screamer — a goose-like aquatic bird, Chauna torquata, of the family Anhimidae of tropical and subtropical South America, having a crest on the back of its head: order Anseriformes (ducks, geese, etc)
  • critical density — the density of matter that would be required to halt the expansion of the universe
  • 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
  • crystal detector — a demodulator, used esp in microwave circuits and in early radio receivers, consisting of a thin metal wire in point contact with a semiconductor crystal
  • currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
  • dacryocystectomy — The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
  • dakota territory — a territory in the N central U.S., from 1861 to 1868 comprising present-day North Dakota and South Dakota, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
  • 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.
  • 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
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