15-letter words containing d, o, i, t, e
- completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
- complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- condition codes — a set of single bits that indicate specific conditions within a computer. The values of the condition codes are often determined by the outcome of a prior software operation and their principal use is to govern choices between alternative instruction sequences
- conductiometric — conductometric
- confidence test — (testing) Tests to confirm that the results of a program lie within certain ranges according to the expected probability distribution.
- confidence vote — a vote to clarify whether someone or something has the support of those present
- confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
- conjoined twins — twin babies born joined together at some point, such as at the hips. Some have lived for many years without being surgically separated
- considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- contact details — the information required to contact someone, such as an address or telephone number
- contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contraindicated — not advisable because of contraindications
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- coordinate bond — a type of covalent chemical bond in which both the shared electrons are provided by one of the atoms
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- corticosteroids — Plural form of corticosteroid.
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
- credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
- creditor nation — a nation that owes less to foreign and international bodies than they owe to it
- critical period — a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards
- crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
- crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
- cut (up) didoes — to behave in mischievous or silly way
- cyclopentadiene — a colourless liquid unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon obtained in the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons and the distillation of coal tar: used in the manufacture of plastics and insecticides. Formula: C5H6
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- data collection — the process of gathering information or data
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- data protection — (in Britain) safeguards for individuals relating to personal data stored on a computer
- de-unionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
- deacidification — a procedure that is carried out to lessen the level of acid present in paper
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- debathification — The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of Iraq from the military and civil office following the ousting of w Saddam Hussein.
- decalcification — the act or process of decalcifying.
- decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
- deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
- decertification — The act or process of decertifying.
- decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
- decollate snail — a cone-shaped, burrowing snail, Rumina decollata, that feeds on common brown garden snails.
- decommunization — the act or process of decommunizing
- decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.