19-letter words containing e, l, d
- clandestine entrant — a person who hides in or on a vehicle as it enters the United Kingdom with the aim of avoiding immigration controls
- client-server model — client-server
- clinical depression — depression in a patient that meets defined criteria and that is deemed to merit treatment
- cloakroom attendant — a person whose job is to check coats and other personal items for visitors to a place
- cobaltous hydroxide — a rose-red, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, Co 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly in the preparation of cobalt salts and in the manufacture of paint and varnish driers.
- cobol-1961 extended — (language) A short-lived separation of COBOL specifications.
- collect on delivery — payment in cash when a purchase or shipment is delivered
- collector electrode — See under Klystron.
- collision detection — (networking) A class of methods for sharing a data transmission medium in which hosts transmit as soon as they have data to send and then check to see whether their transmission has suffered a collision with another host's. If a collision is detected then the data must be resent. The resending algorithm should try to minimise the chance that two hosts's data will repeatedly collide. For example, the CSMA/CD protocol used on Ethernet specifies that they should then wait for a random time before re-transmitting. See also backoff. This contrasts with slotted protocols and token passing.
- colorado tick fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in the Rocky Mountain regions of the United States, carried by a tick, Dermacentor andersoni, and characterized by fever, sensitivity to light, headache, and leg and back pain.
- come into the world — to be born
- command line option — (software) (Or "option", "flag", "switch", "option switch") An argument to a command that modifies its function rather than providing data. Options generally start with "-" in Unix or "/" in MS-DOS. This is usually followed by a single letter or occasionally a digit. More recently, GNU software adopted the --longoptionname style, usually in addition to traditional, single-character, -x style equivalents. Some commands require each option to be a separate argument, introduced by a new "-" or "/", others allow multiple option letters to be concatenated into a single argument with a single "-" or "/", e.g. "ls -al". A few Unix commands (e.g. ar, tar) allow the "-" to be omitted. Some options may or must be followed by a value, e.g. "cc prog.c -o prog", sometimes with and sometimes without an intervening space.
- commercially-minded — knowledgeable about business; interested in making money
- common object model — Component Object Model
- compact disc player — a machine for playing compact discs
- compact disk player — a device for playing compact disks.
- complete quadrangle — a plane figure consisting of four points connected by six lines
- compression molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic by closing a mold on it, forming the material by heat and pressure.
- computer-controlled — controlled by computers, esp without direct human intervention
- concours d'elegance — a parade of cars or other vehicles, prizes being awarded to the most elegant, best designed, or best turned-out
- confidence interval — an interval of values bounded by confidence limits within which the true value of a population parameter is stated to lie with a specified probability
- consolidated school — a public school attended by pupils from several adjoining, esp. rural, districts
- consultation period — a period during which consultations are held before a policy decision is made
- contemplative order — a religious order whose members are devoted to prayer rather than works.
- contradistinctively — In contradistinction.
- conventional wisdom — The conventional wisdom about something is the generally accepted view of it.
- convulsive disorder — any of various types of epilepsy.
- cordillera oriental — the eastern ranges of the Andes, in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru.
- counterproductively — In a counterproductive way.
- countervailing duty — an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country
- cracked gas cooling — Cracked gas cooling is a process in which the temperature of a cracked gas is reduced in order to separate it into different product streams.
- credit default swap — a contract in which the parties exchange the exposure to loss should a creditor fail to make a payment when it comes due back
- crystallized fruits — fruits that are covered in sugar which is melted and then allowed to harden
- crystallized ginger — sugar-coated ginger
- cuboidal epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of cells of cuboid or polyhedral shape.
- cudgel one's brains — to think hard about a problem
- culler-fried system — A system for interactive mathematics.
- cultivated mushroom — an edible mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) with a pale cap and stalk: the most common food mushroom
- cumulative evidence — additional evidence reinforcing testimony previously given
- customs declaration — a form declaring the nature and value of goods, etc, for customs purposes
- cyclohexadienedione — (organic chemistry) benzoquinone.
- cyril of alexandria — Saint. ?375–444 ad, Christian theologian and patriarch of Alexandria. Feast day: June 27 or June 9
- daisy-wheel printer — a type of printer that uses a daisywheel
- dangling participle — a participle intended to modify a noun but having the wrong grammatical relationship to it as for example having left in the sentence Having left Europe for good, Peter's future seemed bleak indeed
- data terminal ready — (communications) (DTR) The wire in a full RS-232 connection that tells the Data Communication Equipment (DCE, typically a modem) that the Data Terminal Equipment (DTE, typically a computer or terminal) is ready to transmit and receive data.
- davy jones's locker — the bottom of the sea; grave of those drowned at sea or buried there
- de broglie equation — the postulate of wave mechanics that a particle of mass m moving at a velocity v will have the properties of a wave of wavelength h / mv (de Broglie wavelength) where h is Planck's constant.
- de-compartmentalize — to divide into categories or compartments.
- de-internationalize — to make international, as in scope or character: a local conflict that was internationalized into a major war.
- de-militarised zone — (networking) (DMZ) (From the military term for an area between two opponents where fighting is prevented) DMZ Ethernets connect networks and computers controlled by different bodies. They may be external or internal. External DMZ Ethernets link regional networks with routers to internal networks. Internal DMZ Ethernets link local nodes with routers to the regional networks. Compare red zone.