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15-letter words containing n, a, d, e, r

  • creditor nation — a nation that owes less to foreign and international bodies than they owe to it
  • crescent-shaped — having the shape of a crescent
  • criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
  • criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
  • crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
  • crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
  • currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
  • cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
  • cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
  • daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
  • dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
  • danse du ventre — belly dance
  • dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
  • darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
  • darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
  • data link layer — (networking)   Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
  • data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
  • data protection — (in Britain) safeguards for individuals relating to personal data stored on a computer
  • data redundancy — (data, communications, storage)   Any technique that stores or transmits extra, derived data that can be used to detect or repair errors, either in hardware or software. Examples are parity bits and the cyclic redundancy check. If the cost of errors is high enough, e.g. in a safety-critical system, redundancy may be used in both hardware AND software with three separate computers programmed by three separate teams ("triple redundancy") and some system to check that they all produce the same answer, or some kind of majority voting system. The term is not typically used for other, less beneficial, duplication of data. 2.   (communications)   The proportion of a message's gross information content that can be eliminated without losing essential information. Technically, redundancy is one minus the ratio of the actual uncertainty to the maximum uncertainty. This is the fraction of the structure of the message which is determined not by the choice of the sender, but rather by the accepted statistical rules governing the choice of the symbols in question.
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • dead and buried — If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future.
  • dead on arrival — dead before reaching hospital
  • dead-end street — a street blocked at one end
  • deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • decertification — The act or process of decertifying.
  • deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
  • declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
  • deconcentrating — Present participle of deconcentrate.
  • deconcentration — the act of decentralizing or the state of becoming less concentrated in one area
  • decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
  • decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • dedifferentiate — to undergo the process of dedifferentiation
  • deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
  • defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
  • degenerationist — a person who believes in the evolutionary decline of a species
  • deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
  • dehydrogenating — Present participle of dehydrogenate.
  • dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
  • deindustrialise — Alternative spelling of deindustrialize.
  • deindustrialize — to reduce the importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of (a nation or area)
  • delaware jargon — a jargon based on Unami Delaware, now extinct but formerly used as a lingua franca in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
  • delayed neutron — a neutron produced in a nuclear reactor by the breakdown of a fission product and released a short time after neutrons produced in the primary process
  • delta reduction — (theory)   In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
  • dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
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