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15-letter words containing d, r, e, a, n, o

  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blockade runner — a person, ship etc that tries to carry goods through a blockade
  • blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
  • borderline case — a person or thing that is not clearly classifiable as something
  • brand extension — the practice of using a well-known brand name to promote new products or services in unrelated fields
  • brave new world — If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair.
  • bread and honey — money
  • break-in period — a period during which certain restrictions or moderation in operating should be followed, as the avoidance of high speed, rapid acceleration, or severe braking for a new automobile.
  • breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
  • breeding season — the time of year during which animals breed
  • bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
  • bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
  • bronzed grackle — the western subspecies of the American bird, the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula versicolor, having bronzy, iridescent plumage.
  • brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
  • bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
  • bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
  • canadian forces — the official name for the military forces of Canada
  • carbon monoxide — Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that is produced especially by the engines of vehicles.
  • cardinal flower — a campanulaceous plant, Lobelia cardinalis of E North America, that has brilliant scarlet, pink, or white flowers
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
  • chandler period — the period of the oscillation (Chandler wobble) of the earth's axis, varying between 416 and 433 days.
  • chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
  • chorda tendinea — any of the tendons extending from the papillary muscles to the atrioventricular valves and preventing the valves from moving into the atria during ventricular contraction.
  • chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
  • chronic disease — long-term illness
  • 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.
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
  • cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
  • common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • comrade in arms — a fellow soldier.
  • comrade-in-arms — A comrade-in-arms is someone who has worked for the same cause or purpose as you and has shared the same difficulties and dangers.
  • concealed-carry — the practice of carrying a concealed gun or other weapon in public.
  • concession road — (esp in Ontario) one of a series of roads separating concessions in a township
  • confederate war — the American Civil War.
  • connected graph — (mathematics)   A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
  • consecratedness — the state of being consecrated
  • considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
  • contact address — an address where a person can be contacted
  • 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
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