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15-letter words containing l, d, c

  • public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
  • pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
  • purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • pyramidal tract — any of four tracts of descending motor fibers that extend in pairs down each side of the spinal column and function in voluntary movement.
  • pyrogallic acid — pyrogallol
  • pyrogallic-acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous, solid, phenolic compound, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 , obtained by heating gallic acid and water: used chiefly as a developer in photography, as a mordant for wool, in dyeing, and in medicine in the treatment of certain skin conditions.
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
  • radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
  • radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
  • radiochemically — by radiochemical means or methods; from a radiochemical perspective
  • radiometrically — using a radiometric method, in terms of radiometry
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • radiotelemetric — of or relating to radiotelemetry
  • reckless driver — sb who drives dangerously
  • recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
  • recollectedness — the state or quality of being recollected
  • reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
  • recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
  • red blood cells — Physiology. one of the cells of the blood, which in mammals are enucleate disks concave on both sides, contain hemoglobin, and carry oxygen to the cells and tissues and carbon dioxide back to the respiratory organs. Abbreviation: RBC.
  • redfin pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • rent-controlled — regulated by law to control the rent a landlord can charge for domestic accommodation and to guarantee a landlord's right to evict tenants
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • richard gabriel — (person)   (Dick, RPG) Dr. Richard P. Gabriel. A noted SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic. Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation. He founded the successful company, Lucid Technologies, Inc.. In 1996 he was Distinguished Computer Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. (later renamed ObjectShare, Inc.). See also gabriel, Qlambda, QLISP, saga.
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • ricinoleic acid — a colorless to yellow, viscous, liquid, water-insoluble, unsaturated hydroxyl acid, C 1 8 H 3 4 O 3 , occurring in castor oil in the form of the glyceride: used chiefly in soaps and textile finishing.
  • round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • saddle-stitched — having a binding in which the sections of a publication are inserted inside each other and secured through the middle fold with thread, or wire staples
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
  • salicylaldehyde — an oily, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 6 O 2 , having an almondlike odor: used chiefly in perfumery and in the synthesis of coumarin.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • scala cordonata — a ramp having the form of broad, slightly inclined steps.
  • scared shitless — terrified
  • scheduled caste — (in India) the official name given to the lower castes that are now protected by the government and offered special concessions.
  • school district — A school district is an area which includes all the schools that are situated within that area and are governed by a particular authority.
  • school holidays — the period during which schools are closed - in the summer, at Christmas and Easter, and at other times of the year
  • sclerodermatous — Zoology. covered with a hardened tissue, as scales.
  • scolding bridle — branks.
  • scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
  • scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
  • sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
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