16-letter words containing i, d, o, c, e, s
- computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
- concession stand — a stall where food, drinks, or other items are sold at a theatre or other venue
- conditional sale — a sale in which the title of a property remains with the seller until some condition is met, as the payment of the full purchase price.
- confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
- confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
- confidentialness — The state or quality of being confidential.
- consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
- considering that — You use considering that to indicate that you are thinking about a particular fact when making a judgment or giving an opinion.
- consubstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of consubstantiate.
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- conventionalised — to make conventional.
- cordon sanitaire — a guarded line serving to cut off an infected area
- core description — A core description is a summary of the information about a rock sample, found by core analysis.
- corona discharge — an electrical discharge appearing on and around the surface of a charged conductor, caused by ionization of the surrounding gas
- cosimo de'medici — Catherine de', Catherine de Médicis.
- costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
- cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
- counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- cross one's mind — to occur to one briefly or suddenly
- crossover bodice — a bodice which has one side crossing over the other
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- cut down to size — to reduce the prestige or importance of
- cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
- data compression — the act of compressing.
- davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
- debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
- deboursification — (jargon) Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
- decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
- decision problem — (theory) A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
- decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
- declassification — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- delta conversion — delta reduction
- demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
- dentist's office — A dentist's office is the room or house where a dentist works.
- dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
- descending colon — the last portion of the colon, beginning at the upper left abdomen in the region of the spleen and continuing downward along the left posterior wall to the sigmoid flexure.
- descent function — If a recursive function is of the form f x = ... f (d x) ... then d is known as the descent function.
- devil's advocate — If you play devil's advocate in a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.
- devonshire cream — clotted cream.
- diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
- direct discourse — quotation of a speaker in which the speaker's exact words are repeated.
- direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
- direction cosine — the cosine of the angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
- director's chair — a lightweight folding armchair with transversely crossed legs and having a canvas seat and back panel, as traditionally used by motion-picture directors.
- disaccreditation — to take away the accreditation or authorization of: to disaccredit a diplomat.
- disclosing agent — a vegetable dye, administered as a liquid or in tablet form (disclosing tablet), that stains plaque, making it readily apparent on the teeth
- disconcertedness — The characteristic of being disconcerted.
- disconnectedness — The characteristic of being disconnected.