15-letter words containing n, a, d, e, r
- child restraint — a device used to protect a child in a motor vehicle
- child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
- child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- 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.
- christadelphian — a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
- chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
- chronic disease — long-term illness
- church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
- church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
- cinderella book — (publication) "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- class president — the student president of a school or college class
- clearheadedness — The quality of being clearheaded.
- 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
- 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
- common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- comrade in arms — a fellow soldier.
- comrade-in-arms — A comrade-in-arms is someone who has worked for the same cause or purpose as you and has shared the same difficulties and dangers.
- concealed-carry — the practice of carrying a concealed gun or other weapon in public.
- concession road — (esp in Ontario) one of a series of roads separating concessions in a township
- confederate war — the American Civil War.
- connected graph — (mathematics) A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
- consecratedness — the state of being consecrated
- considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
- contact address — an address where a person can be contacted
- contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contraindicated — not advisable because of contraindications
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- coordinate bond — a type of covalent chemical bond in which both the shared electrons are provided by one of the atoms
- corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
- counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
- cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
- cradle snatcher — someone who marries or has an affair with a much younger person
- cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
- credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
- credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.