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18-letter words containing d, e

  • cerenkov radiation — radiation emitted when a charged particle travels through a medium at a speed greater than the speed of light through that medium
  • chambered nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
  • chandelier earring — one of a pair of long and ornate earrings that dangle from the earlobes, usually dropping from more than one level.
  • changement de pied — a jump in which the dancer's feet are reversed from the starting position.
  • character disorder — a disorder characterized by socially undesirable behavior, as poor control of impulses or inability to maintain close emotional relationships, and by absence of anxiety or guilt.
  • character encoding — (character)   (Or "character encoding scheme") A mapping between binary data values and character code positions (or "code points"). Early systems stored characters in a variety of ways, e.g. four six-bit characters in a 24-bit word, but around 1960, eight-bit bytes started to become the most common data storage layout, with each character stored in one byte, typically in the ASCII character set. In the case of ASCII, the character encoding is an identity mapping: code position 65 maps to the byte value 65. This is possible because ASCII uses only code positions representable as single bytes, i.e., values between 0 and 255. (US-ASCII only uses values 0 to 127, in fact.) From the late 1990s, there was increased use of larger character sets such as Unicode and many CJK coded character sets. These can represent characters from many languages and more symbols.
  • character-building — improving certain good or useful traits in a person's character, esp self-reliance, endurance, and courage
  • chartered engineer — (in Britain) an engineer who is registered with the Engineering Council as having the scientific and technical knowledge and practical experience to satisfy its professional requirements
  • chartered surveyor — (in Britain) a surveyor who is registered with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors as having the qualifications, training, and experience to satisfy their professional requirements
  • cheval de bataille — a horse used in battle; charger.
  • chickenheartedness — Alternative form of chicken-heartedness.
  • children of israel — the Jews; Hebrews
  • children's crusade — a crusade to recover Jerusalem from the Saracens, undertaken in 1212 by thousands of French and German children who perished, were sold into slavery, or were turned back.
  • chinese fire drill — a state of chaotic, often clamorous disorder.
  • chinese water deer — a small Chinese or Korean deer, Hydropotes inermis, having tusks and no antlers: introduced into England and France
  • chlorohydroquinone — a white to light-tan, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 3 Cl(OH) 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a developer in photography.
  • chocolate-coloured — dark brown
  • chord of the sixth — sixth chord.
  • chrétien de troyes — 12th century, French poet, who wrote the five Arthurian romances Erec; Cligès; Lancelot, le chevalier de la charette; Yvain, le chevalier au lion; and Perceval, le conte del Graal (?1155–?1190), the first courtly romances
  • christian democrat — a member or supporter of a Christian Democratic party
  • christian endeavor — an organization of young people of various evangelical Protestant churches, formed in 1881 to promote Christian principles and service.
  • christian reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Christian Reformed Church) organized in the U.S. in 1857 by groups that had seceded from the Dutch Reformed Church.
  • christine de pisan — ?1364–?1430, French poet and prose writer, born in Venice. Her works include ballads, rondeaux, lays, and a biography of Charles V of France
  • cigar-store indian — a wooden statue of an American Indian, traditionally displayed at the entrance of cigar stores.
  • circulating medium — currency serving as a medium of exchange
  • citta del vaticano — Vatican City
  • civil disobedience — Civil disobedience is the refusal by ordinary people in a country to obey laws or pay taxes, usually as a protest.
  • classified section — the part of a publication that contains classified advertising
  • clay-colored robin — any of several small Old World birds having a red or reddish breast, especially Erithacus rubecula, of Europe.
  • cleopatra's needle — either of two Egyptian obelisks, originally set up at Heliopolis about 1500 bc: one was moved to the Thames Embankment, London, in 1878, the other to Central Park, New York, in 1880
  • clew down (or up) — to lower (or raise) a sail by means of clew lines
  • climbing hydrangea — a woody vine, Hydrangea anomala, of eastern Asia, having shiny, egg-shaped leaves and flat-topped white flower clusters, and climbing by aerial rootlets.
  • closed corporation — a corporation the stock of which is owned by a small number of persons and is rarely traded on the open market
  • closed scholarship — a scholarship for which only certain people, such as those from a particular school or with a particular surname, are eligible
  • closed-box testing — functional testing
  • coast rhododendron — a rhododendron, Rhododendron macrophyllum, of western North America, having large clusters of rose-purple flowers spotted with brown: the state flower of Washington.
  • coast-guard cutter — a cutter used by the U.S. Coast Guard.
  • cobalt violet deep — a medium to strong purple color.
  • coiled tubing unit — A coiled tubing unit is all of the equipment needed to carry out coiled tubing drilling.
  • collision diameter — the distance between the centers of two colliding molecules when at their closest point of approach.
  • colorado red cedar — Rocky Mountain juniper.
  • colossus of rhodes — a giant bronze statue of Apollo built on Rhodes in about 292–280 bc; destroyed by an earthquake in 225 bc; one of the Seven Wonders of the World
  • comb-footed spider — any of numerous spiders constituting the family Theridiidae, having a comblike row of bristles on the tarsi of the hind legs.
  • combined operation — a military operation carried out jointly by allied forces
  • come down the pike — When something comes down the pike, it happens or occurs.
  • commander in chief — Also, Commander in Chief. the supreme commander of the armed forces of a nation or, sometimes, of several allied nations: The president is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force.
  • commander-in-chief — A commander-in-chief is a senior officer who is in charge of all the forces in a particular area.
  • commanding officer — A commanding officer is an officer who is in charge of a military unit.
  • commando operation — a major operation for treatment of cancer of the head and neck, involving removal of many facial structures and subsequent surgical reconstruction
  • commedia dell'arte — a form of popular comedy developed in Italy during the 16th to 18th centuries, with stock characters such as Punchinello, Harlequin, and Columbine, in situations improvised from a plot outline
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