15-letter words containing i, n, t, o, d
- benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
- beyond question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- bide one's time — to wait patiently for an opportunity
- bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
- billings method — a natural method of birth control that involves examining the colour and viscosity of the cervical mucus to discover when ovulation is occurring
- bit on the side — an extramarital affair
- bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
- bits per second — (communications, unit) (bps, b/s) The unit in which data rate is measured. For example, a modem's data rate is usually measured in kilobits per second. In 1996, the maximum modem speed for use on the PSTN was 33.6 kbps, rising to 56 kbps in 1997. Note that kilo- (k), mega- (M), etc. in data rates denote powers of 1000, not 1024.
- blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
- bloodguiltiness — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
- 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 toning bar — a weighted exercise bar made of steel encased in a layer of foam, used for toning and strength training.
- bone conduction — the transmission of sound vibrations to the internal ear through the cranial bones (opposed to air conduction).
- border incident — an incident, usually fighting, on a border between countries
- bottled in bond — stored in bonded warehouses for a stated length of time before being bottled, as some whiskey
- boustrophedonic — of or relating to lines written in opposite directions
- brand extension — the practice of using a well-known brand name to promote new products or services in unrelated fields
- bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
- broken pediment — a pediment, as over a doorway or window, having its raking cornice interrupted at the crown or apex.
- bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
- brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
- bulldog edition — the early edition of a morning newspaper, chiefly for out-of-town distribution
- cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
- calendarization — the process of calendarizing
- calydonian hunt — the pursuit by Meleager, Atalanta, and others of a savage boar (Calydonian boar) sent by Artemis to lay waste to Calydon.
- canadianization — to make Canadian in character.
- cardinal points — the four main points of the compass: north, south, east, and west
- 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.
- casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
- cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
- child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
- child endowment — a social security payment for dependent children
- chorda tendinea — any of the tendons extending from the papillary muscles to the atrioventricular valves and preventing the valves from moving into the atria during ventricular contraction.
- cinder concrete — concrete having small coal clinkers as an aggregate.
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
- 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
- closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
- cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
- codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
- cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
- commodification — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- commoditization — The transformation of something into a commodity.
- common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
- completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
- complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- condition codes — a set of single bits that indicate specific conditions within a computer. The values of the condition codes are often determined by the outcome of a prior software operation and their principal use is to govern choices between alternative instruction sequences
- conductiometric — conductometric