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15-letter words containing m, u, d

  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
  • compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
  • compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
  • compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
  • compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
  • compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • conductiometric — conductometric
  • consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
  • consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
  • contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
  • cry blue murder — to make an outcry
  • 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)
  • cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • day of judgment — Judgment Day
  • decommunization — the act or process of decommunizing
  • demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • demutualization — Demutualization is a situation in which a mutually owned company such as an insurance company changes into a public company that issues stock.
  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • deuterium oxide — heavy water.
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • diamond cutting — the art or work of cutting and shaping rough diamonds to make them suitable for use by the jewellery trade
  • diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
  • dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
  • dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
  • dimethylsulfide — Alternative spelling of dimethyl sulfide.
  • disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
  • domain calculus — (database)   A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
  • domain maturity — (systems analysis)   The level of stability and depth of understanding that has been achieved in an area for which applications are developed.
  • domain squatter — (web)   An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
  • domitae naturae — (of animals) tamed or domesticated (distinguished from ferae naturae).
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
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