15-letter words containing e, d

croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
cry blue murder — to make an outcry
cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
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
cut (up) didoes — to behave in mischievous or silly way
cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
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
cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
dadchelor party — a party primarily attended by men and held to honour and present gifts to a prospective father
daffodil yellow — a bright yellow colour
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.
daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
dairy ice cream — ice cream made from milk rather than artificial ingredients
dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
danse du ventre — belly dance
dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
data collection — the process of gathering information or data
data link layer — (networking) Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
data link level — data link layer
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
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.
database server — A stand-alone computer in a local area network that holds and manages the database. It implies that database management functions, such as locating the actual record being requested, is performed in the server computer. Contrast with file server, which acts as a remote disk drive and requires that large parts of the database, for example, entire indexes, be transmitted to the user's computer where the real database management tasks are performed. First-generation personal computer database software was not designed for a network; thus, modified versions of the software released by the vendors employed the file server concept. Second-generation products, designed for local area networks, perform the management tasks in the server where they should be done, and consequently are turning the file server into a database server.
daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
day of judgment — Judgment Day
day of the dead — an annual celebration to honor the spirits of the dead, observed in Mexico and other Latin American countries on November 1 and 2, concurrently with All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day.
day of the lord — Also called Day of Yahweh. (in Old Testament eschatology) a day of final judgment. Amos 5:18–21; Ezek. 30.
de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
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
dead and buried — If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future.
dead letter box — a place where messages and other material can be left and collected secretly without the sender and the recipient meeting
dead man's hand — a hand containing the two pairs of two aces and two eights.
dead on arrival — dead before reaching hospital
dead-cat bounce — a temporary recovery in prices following a substantial fall as a result of speculators buying stocks they have already sold rather than as a result of a genuine reversal of the downward trend
dead-end street — a street blocked at one end
deadman's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.

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