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15-letter words containing d, k

  • chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
  • chudskoye ozero — Russian name of Peipus.
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • clear the decks — to prepare for action, as by removing obstacles from a field of activity or combat
  • cloak-and-sword — (of a drama or work of fiction) dealing with characters who wear cloaks and swords; concerned with the customs and romance of the nobility in bygone times.
  • collected works — the works of a particular writer brought together into one volume or a set of volumes
  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • cooktown orchid — a purple Australian orchid, Dendrobium bigibbum, found in Queensland, of which it is the floral emblem
  • coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
  • cottonseed cake — cotton cake.
  • counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • crack down (on) — to become strict or stricter (with)
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
  • cream-crackered — exhausted
  • crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
  • culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
  • dark adaptation — the adaptation of the eye to vision in the dark by dilation of the pupil, increased sensitivity of the retina, etc.
  • dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
  • darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
  • data link layer — (networking)   Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
  • data link level — data link layer
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
  • deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
  • deflection yoke — an assembly of one or more coils through which a controlled current is passed to produce a magnetic field for deflecting a beam of electrons, as in a picture tube.
  • delmonico steak — club steak
  • demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
  • desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
  • developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
  • diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • diadochokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
  • dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
  • diphenyl ketone — benzophenone.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disk controller — (hardware, storage)   (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
  • distress rocket — a rocket fired from a ship to warn others nearby that it is in distress
  • docking station — device: charger
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
  • donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
  • double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
  • downhill skiing — the sport of skiing down a slope, usually making turns and various maneuvers.
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • dressed to kill — woman: in stylish clothes
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • drink deep (of) — to take in a large amount (of) by or as by drinking
  • drinking trough — a narrow open container in which water for animals is put
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