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15-letter words containing e, c, t, o, d, r

  • 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
  • dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • doctor's degree — any of several academic degrees of the highest rank, as the Ph.D. or Ed.D., awarded by universities and some colleges for completing advanced work in graduate school or a professional school.
  • doctor's office — doctor's surgery
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • eddystone rocks — a dangerous group of rocks at the W end of the English Channel, southwest of Plymouth: lighthouse
  • editio princeps — first edition.
  • editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
  • elaborated code — a way of talking which is explicit and does not assume that the listener shares the same assumptions and understandings as the speaker
  • 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
  • electra paradox — the supposed paradox that one may know something to be true of an object under one description but not another, as when Electra knew that Orestes was her brother but not that the man before her was her brother although he was Orestes. This shows the predicate "knows" to be intensional, that Electra's knowledge here is de dicto, and that the statement of it yields an opaque context
  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodialytic — Relating to electrodialysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • esprit de corps — military, sport: team spirit
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
  • extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
  • feelgood factor — When journalists refer to the feelgood factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • formation dance — any dance in which a number of couples form a certain arrangement, such as two facing lines or a circle, and perform a series of figures within or based on that arrangement
  • frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • frigidoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by cold.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • get one's cards — to be told to leave one's employment
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