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15-letter words containing i, d, a, r, e, s

  • brill's disease — a form of epidemic typhus fever in which the disease recurs years after the original infection
  • bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
  • brush discharge — a slightly luminous electrical discharge between points of high charge density when the charge density is insufficient to cause a spark or around sharp points on a highly charged conductor because of ionization of air molecules in their vicinity
  • buffalo soldier — (formerly, especially among American Indians) a black soldier.
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • buried treasure — A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is. Used sarcastically, because what is found is anything *but* treasure. Buried treasure almost always needs to be dug up and removed. "I just found that the scheduler sorts its queue using bubble sort! Buried treasure!"
  • calculated risk — a chance of failure, the probability of which is estimated before some action is undertaken.
  • canadian forces — the official name for the military forces of Canada
  • cardiac massage — a rhythmic compressing of the heart, using the hands to force blood through the blood vessels: an emergency medical procedure for treating heart failure
  • cardinal spider — a large house spider, Tegenaria parietina
  • cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • careers adviser — a person trained in giving vocational advice, esp in secondary, further, or higher education
  • cartesian diver — a glass vessel partially filled with water and covered with an airtight membrane, containing a hollow object that is open at the bottom and contains just enough air to allow it to float. Pressing on the membrane compresses the air in the vessel and forces water into the object, causing it to sink; releasing the membrane causes it to rise.
  • 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.
  • cartridge brass — brass composed of about 70 percent copper and 30 percent zinc.
  • centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
  • 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.
  • charles dickens — Charles (John Huf·fam) [huhf-uh m] /ˈhʌf əm/ (Show IPA), ("Boz") 1812–70, English novelist.
  • chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
  • cheval de frise — a portable obstacle, usually a sawhorse, covered with projecting spikes or barbed wire, for military use in closing a passage, breaking in a defensive wall, etc.
  • cheval-de-frise — a portable barrier of spikes, sword blades, etc, used to obstruct the passage of cavalry
  • child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
  • child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
  • chinese mustard — brown mustard.
  • christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
  • chronic disease — long-term illness
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
  • comrade in arms — a fellow soldier.
  • comrade-in-arms — A comrade-in-arms is someone who has worked for the same cause or purpose as you and has shared the same difficulties and dangers.
  • concession road — (esp in Ontario) one of a series of roads separating concessions in a township
  • considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
  • coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
  • credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
  • credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
  • creme de cassis — a sweet, purplish-red liqueur flavored with black currants
  • creme de fraise — a liqueur flavored principally with strawberries.
  • crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
  • crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
  • cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
  • 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.
  • darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
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