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19-letter words containing l, i, d, c, e

  • clinical depression — depression in a patient that meets defined criteria and that is deemed to merit treatment
  • cobaltous hydroxide — a rose-red, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, Co 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly in the preparation of cobalt salts and in the manufacture of paint and varnish driers.
  • collect on delivery — payment in cash when a purchase or shipment is delivered
  • collision detection — (networking)   A class of methods for sharing a data transmission medium in which hosts transmit as soon as they have data to send and then check to see whether their transmission has suffered a collision with another host's. If a collision is detected then the data must be resent. The resending algorithm should try to minimise the chance that two hosts's data will repeatedly collide. For example, the CSMA/CD protocol used on Ethernet specifies that they should then wait for a random time before re-transmitting. See also backoff. This contrasts with slotted protocols and token passing.
  • colorado tick fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in the Rocky Mountain regions of the United States, carried by a tick, Dermacentor andersoni, and characterized by fever, sensitivity to light, headache, and leg and back pain.
  • come into the world — to be born
  • command line option — (software)   (Or "option", "flag", "switch", "option switch") An argument to a command that modifies its function rather than providing data. Options generally start with "-" in Unix or "/" in MS-DOS. This is usually followed by a single letter or occasionally a digit. More recently, GNU software adopted the --longoptionname style, usually in addition to traditional, single-character, -x style equivalents. Some commands require each option to be a separate argument, introduced by a new "-" or "/", others allow multiple option letters to be concatenated into a single argument with a single "-" or "/", e.g. "ls -al". A few Unix commands (e.g. ar, tar) allow the "-" to be omitted. Some options may or must be followed by a value, e.g. "cc prog.c -o prog", sometimes with and sometimes without an intervening space.
  • commercially-minded — knowledgeable about business; interested in making money
  • compact disc player — a machine for playing compact discs
  • compact disk player — a device for playing compact disks.
  • compression molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic by closing a mold on it, forming the material by heat and pressure.
  • confidence interval — an interval of values bounded by confidence limits within which the true value of a population parameter is stated to lie with a specified probability
  • consolidated school — a public school attended by pupils from several adjoining, esp. rural, districts
  • consultation period — a period during which consultations are held before a policy decision is made
  • contemplative order — a religious order whose members are devoted to prayer rather than works.
  • contradistinctively — In contradistinction.
  • conventional wisdom — The conventional wisdom about something is the generally accepted view of it.
  • convulsive disorder — any of various types of epilepsy.
  • cordillera oriental — the eastern ranges of the Andes, in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru.
  • counterproductively — In a counterproductive way.
  • countervailing duty — an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country
  • cracked gas cooling — Cracked gas cooling is a process in which the temperature of a cracked gas is reduced in order to separate it into different product streams.
  • credit default swap — a contract in which the parties exchange the exposure to loss should a creditor fail to make a payment when it comes due back
  • crystallized fruits — fruits that are covered in sugar which is melted and then allowed to harden
  • crystallized ginger — sugar-coated ginger
  • cuboidal epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of cells of cuboid or polyhedral shape.
  • cudgel one's brains — to think hard about a problem
  • culler-fried system — A system for interactive mathematics.
  • cultivated mushroom — an edible mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) with a pale cap and stalk: the most common food mushroom
  • cumulative evidence — additional evidence reinforcing testimony previously given
  • customs declaration — a form declaring the nature and value of goods, etc, for customs purposes
  • cyclohexadienedione — (organic chemistry) benzoquinone.
  • cyril of alexandria — Saint. ?375–444 ad, Christian theologian and patriarch of Alexandria. Feast day: June 27 or June 9
  • dangling participle — a participle intended to modify a noun but having the wrong grammatical relationship to it as for example having left in the sentence Having left Europe for good, Peter's future seemed bleak indeed
  • de-compartmentalize — to divide into categories or compartments.
  • declaration of love — a statement made by one person to another in which they say they are in love with the other person
  • declare an interest — to make known one's connection, esp a prejudicial connection, with an affair
  • decontextualization — to remove (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) from a context: decontextualized works of art displayed in museums.
  • deflate compression — deflate
  • dendrochronological — Pertaining to dendrochronology.
  • dental receptionist — a receptionist working in a dental surgery
  • deoxyribonucleoside — a compound composed of deoxyribose and either a purine or a pyrimidine.
  • deoxyribonucleotide — an ester of a deoxyribonucleoside and phosphoric acid; a constituent of DNA.
  • depletion allowance — a tax allowance granted in certain industries, such as the oil and gas industries, to compensate for the depletion of the oil, gas, etc owned by the company
  • dereliction of duty — Dereliction of duty is deliberate or accidental failure to do what you should do as part of your job.
  • detective constable — a police officer who investigates crime and who is of the lowest rank
  • devil's coach-horse — a large black rove beetle, Ocypus olens, with large jaws and ferocious habits
  • devils-on-horseback — a savoury of prunes wrapped in bacon slices and served on toast
  • dielectric constant — Electricity. the ratio of the flux density produced by an electric field in a given dielectric to the flux density produced by that field in a vacuum.
  • dielectric strength — the maximum voltage that can be applied to a given material without causing it to break down, usually expressed in volts or kilovolts per unit of thickness.
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