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15-letter words containing d, r, u, i, c

  • corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
  • cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
  • counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
  • coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
  • cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
  • credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
  • croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
  • cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
  • cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
  • current density — the ratio of the electric current flowing at a particular point in a conductor to the cross-sectional area of the conductor taken perpendicular to the current flow at that point. It is measured in amperes per square metre
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • debureaucratize — to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • decubitus ulcer — a chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissues caused by prolonged pressure on the body surface of bedridden patients
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • delta reduction — (theory)   In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
  • density current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
  • destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • deutsches reich — former German name of Germany.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • direct question — interrogative sentence
  • disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
  • disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
  • disulfuric acid — pyrosulfuric acid
  • dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
  • drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • duchesse brisee — See under duchesse.
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • dynamic routing — (networking)   (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
  • eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
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