15-letter words containing n, a, s, c, r, d
- considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- constant dollar — a dollar valued according to its purchasing power in an arbitrarily set year and then adjusted for price changes in other years so that real purchasing power can be compared by giving prices as they would presumably be in the base year.
- 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
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- 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
- credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
- credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
- crescent-shaped — having the shape of a crescent
- crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
- cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- 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.
- declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
- decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
- democratisation — Alternative spelling of democratization.
- deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
- desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
- describableness — The quality of being describable.
- desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
- dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
- disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
- disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
- disciplinarians — Plural form of disciplinarian.
- disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
- discoordination — Impaired coordination.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminations — Plural form of discrimination.
- disenfranchised — to disfranchise.
- disenfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenfranchise.
- disentrancement — the act of setting free from a trance
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
- distance runner — a participant in distance races.
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- downward closed — closure
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
- eric s. raymond — (person) One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
- flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).