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15-letter words containing i, d, y

  • bo diddley beat — a type of syncopated Black rhythm, frequently used in rock music
  • boating holiday — a holiday spent sailing or travelling in a canal boat, cruiser, etc
  • bodily function — A person's bodily functions are the normal physical processes that regularly occur in their body, particularly the ability to urinate and defecate.
  • body mass index — A person's body mass index is a measurement that represents the relationship between their weight and their height.
  • body toning bar — a weighted exercise bar made of steel encased in a layer of foam, used for toning and strength training.
  • braille display — (hardware)   (Or "refreshable braille display", "refreshable display") An electromechanical device that renders braille with tiny, independently controlled pins used to represent the state of dots in braille cells. Each pin, in its "on" state, raises above the top of its hole in the screen; in its "off" state, it drops below the top of its hole. Older systems used tiny solenoids to control the state of the pins; modern systems are piezoelectric. Typical dimensions of a braille display are 1 line of 40 cells, each cell of two-by-eight dots.
  • breech delivery — birth of a baby with the feet or buttocks appearing first
  • brooklyn bridge — a suspension bridge over the East River, in New York City, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn: built 1867–84. 5989 feet (1825 meters) long.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • calcined baryta — baryta (def 1).
  • calcined-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • calcium cyanide — a white or grayish-black compound, Ca(CN) 2, used as an insecticide and rodent poison.
  • calydonian boar — a savage boar sent by Artemis to destroy Calydon, a city in Aetolia, because its king had neglected to sacrifice to her. It was killed by Meleager, the king's son
  • calydonian hunt — the pursuit by Meleager, Atalanta, and others of a savage boar (Calydonian boar) sent by Artemis to lay waste to Calydon.
  • canadian whisky — a blended whisky made in Canada from rye and other grains
  • carboxylic acid — any of a class of organic acids containing the carboxyl group
  • cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
  • cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
  • celandine poppy — a poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, of the east-central U.S., having one pair of deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
  • clinically dead — having no respiration, no heartbeat, and with no contraction of the pupils when exposed to a strong light
  • commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
  • comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
  • condescendingly — In a condescending manner.
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • contradictorily — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
  • correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
  • cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
  • country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
  • cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
  • 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
  • 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
  • cycling holiday — a holiday in which one cycles between destinations
  • 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
  • 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
  • data dictionary — an index of data held in a database and used to assist in the access to 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.
  • day in, day out — If you say that something happens day in, day out or day in and day out, you mean that it happens regularly over a long period of time.
  • daylight saving — the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
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