16-letter words containing d, e, u, t, s, c
- academic costume — the ceremonial garb of the students and faculty in schools, colleges, and universities, consisting of a flat cap (mortarboard), a long, wide-sleeved gown, and sometimes a hood, worn especially at commencement exercises.
- 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
- acoustic torpedo — a torpedo guided by sound that either emanates from the target or is emitted by the torpedo and bounces off the target.
- activated sludge — a mass of aerated precipitated sewage added to untreated sewage to bring about purification by hastening decomposition by microorganisms
- adjective clause — a relative clause that modifies a noun or pronoun, as the clause that I told you about in This is the book that I told you about and who saw us in It was she who saw us.
- adjustable-pitch — (of a marine or aircraft propeller) having blades whose pitch can be changed while the propeller is stationary, chiefly to suit various conditions of navigation or flight.
- advice columnist — An advice columnist is a person who writes a column in a newspaper or magazine in which they reply to readers who have written to them for advice on their personal problems.
- 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.
- assisted suicide — suicide committed with the assistance of a physician by a person terminally ill or in unmanageable pain
- auditory vesicle — the pouch that is formed by the invagination of an ectodermal placode and that develops into the internal ear.
- banned substance — In sport, banned substances are drugs that competitors are not allowed to take because they could artificially improve their performance.
- bastard culverin — a 16th-century cannon, smaller than a culverin, firing a shot of between 5 and 8 pounds (11 and 17.6 kg).
- 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.
- building society — In Britain, a building society is a business which will lend you money when you want to buy a house. You can also invest money in a building society, where it will earn interest. Compare savings and loan association.
- cardinal virtues — the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude
- cause and effect — You use cause and effect to talk about the way in which one thing is caused by another.
- cause-and-effect — noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
- circuit switched — circuit switching
- circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
- cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
- cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
- closed community — a plant community that does not allow for further colonization, all the available niches being occupied
- cluster headache — a type of recurrent headache characterized by sudden onset and intense pain on one side of the face near the eye
- computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
- consent judgment — a judgment settled and agreed to by the parties to the action. Compare consent decree (def 2).
- consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
- 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.
- consubstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of consubstantiate.
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- 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.
- counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
- crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
- cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
- cut down to size — to reduce the prestige or importance of
- davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
- deboursification — (jargon) Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
- decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- dental insurance — Dental insurance is insurance that pays for treatment by a dentist.
- dependent clause — a clause that cannot function syntactically as a complete sentence by itself but has a nominal, adjectival, or adverbial function within a larger sentence; subordinate clause (Ex.: She will visit us if she can.)
- deputy secretary — the Deputy Secretary of State or Defense etc
- descent function — If a recursive function is of the form f x = ... f (d x) ... then d is known as the descent function.
- destructibleness — The quality of being destructible.
- digestive juices — fluids secreted in the stomach or intestines that assist in the digestion of food
- direct discourse — quotation of a speaker in which the speaker's exact words are repeated.
- discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
- discourteousness — The state or quality of being discourteous.
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