15-letter words containing d, u, r, a, n, t
- ab urbe condita — from the founding of the city (Rome, about 753 b.c.). Abbreviation: A.U.C.
- abundant number — a positive number that is less than the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 12, which is less than the sum of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6.
- advantage court — the receiver's left-hand service court, into which the ball is served when one side has the advantage.
- adventuresomely — In an adventuresome manner.
- adventurousness — the quality of being adventurous
- agro-industrial — the large-scale production, processing, and packaging of food using modern equipment and methods.
- alder buckthorn — a Eurasian rhamnaceous shrub, Frangula alnus, with small greenish flowers and black berry-like fruits
- alkylating drug — any of various potentially cytotoxic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic substances: used therapeutically to destroy cells, especially proliferating cancer cells.
- anti-productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- anticancer drug — a drug used to treat cancer
- argyll and bute — a council area in W Scotland on the Atlantic Ocean: in 1975 the historical counties of Argyllshire and Bute became part of Strathclyde region; in 1996 they were reinstated as a single unitary authority. Argyll and Bute is mountainous and includes the islands of Bute, Mull, Islay, and Jura. Administrative centre: Lochgilphead. Pop: 91 300 (2003 est). Area: 6930 sq km (2676 sq miles)
- around the bend — to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
- around the horn — (thrown) from third base to second to first in trying for a double play
- arrest judgment — to stay proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
- assured tenancy — an agreement between a government-approved body such as a housing association and a tenant for occupation of a newly-built house or flat at an agreed market rent, under which the tenant has security of tenure
- audience rating — a figure based on statistical sampling indicating what proportion of the total listening and viewing audience tune in to a specific programme or network
- auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
- augmented roman — a writing system based on an expanded English alphabet, consisting of 43 characters representing different phonemes of spoken English, used for teaching beginners to read. Abbreviation: I.T.A., i.t.a.
- badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
- banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
- bathurst island — an island off the coast of N Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago: present south of the North Magnetic Pole nearby. 7609 sq. mi. (19,707 sq. km).
- beast of burden — A beast of burden is an animal such as an ox or a donkey that is used for carrying or pulling things.
- building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
- burt l standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- butter-and-eggs — any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
- cardinal virtue — anything considered to be an important or characteristic virtue: Tenacity is his cardinal virtue.
- 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.
- cast around for — If you cast around for something or cast about for it, you try to find it or think of it.
- central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- contadora group — a group of four Latin American nations, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela, formed in January, 1983, to help solve the problems of the region.
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
- counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
- currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- danse du ventre — belly dance
- data redundancy — (data, communications, storage) Any technique that stores or transmits extra, derived data that can be used to detect or repair errors, either in hardware or software. Examples are parity bits and the cyclic redundancy check. If the cost of errors is high enough, e.g. in a safety-critical system, redundancy may be used in both hardware AND software with three separate computers programmed by three separate teams ("triple redundancy") and some system to check that they all produce the same answer, or some kind of majority voting system. The term is not typically used for other, less beneficial, duplication of data. 2. (communications) The proportion of a message's gross information content that can be eliminated without losing essential information. Technically, redundancy is one minus the ratio of the actual uncertainty to the maximum uncertainty. This is the fraction of the structure of the message which is determined not by the choice of the sender, but rather by the accepted statistical rules governing the choice of the symbols in question.
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- deindustrialise — Alternative spelling of deindustrialize.
- deindustrialize — to reduce the importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of (a nation or area)
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