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11-letter words containing n, d

  • cut-and-try — marked by a procedure of trial and error; empirical: Many scientific advances are achieved with a cut-and-try approach.
  • cyanic acid — colourless poisonous volatile liquid acid
  • cyanidation — (metallurgy) The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process.
  • cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
  • cyberfriend — A friend with whom one communicates only through the Internet or cyberspace.
  • cylindrical — Something that is cylindrical is in the shape of a cylinder.
  • cylindroids — Plural form of cylindroid.
  • cyprinodont — any small tropical or subtropical soft-finned fish of the mostly marine family Cyprinodontidae, resembling carp but having toothed jaws. The group includes the guppy, killifish, swordtail, and topminnow
  • cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
  • dacarbazine — a toxic, light-sensitive powder, C 6 H 10 N 6 O, used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and metastatic malignant melanoma.
  • dactylonomy — The use of one's fingers to express numbers.
  • dad dancing — enthusiastic but inelegant dancing to pop music, regarded as typical of middle-aged men
  • daemonology — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
  • daffynition — A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
  • daily dozen — gymnastic setting-up exercises (originally twelve) done daily
  • daily grind — everyday work routine
  • daimyo bond — a bearer bond issued in Japan and the eurobond market by the World Bank
  • daisy chain — A daisy chain is a string of daisies that have been joined together by their stems to make a necklace.
  • dalton plan — a system devised to encourage pupils to learn and develop at their own speed, using libraries and other sources to complete long assignments
  • damascening — Present participle of damascene.
  • damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
  • damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
  • dampishness — the quality of being dampish
  • dance drama — drama performed through dance movements, frequently with dialogue.
  • dance floor — In a restaurant or night club, the dance floor is the area where people can dance.
  • dance music — music that is suitable for dancing
  • dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
  • dandy fever — (in the West Indies) dengue.
  • dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
  • danger cave — a deep, stratified site in the eastern Great Basin, in Utah, occupied by Amerindian cultures from at least 7000 b.c. to historic times.
  • danger list — on
  • danger zone — a dangerous area
  • dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • dangleberry — a blue huckleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa), native to E North America
  • danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
  • danish loaf — a large white loaf with a centre split having the top crust dusted with flour, esp one baked on the sole of the oven
  • dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
  • dap fortran — ["Efficient High Speed Computing with the Distributed Array Processor", P.M. Flanders et al, pp.113-127 (1977)].
  • dardanelles — the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara, separating European from Asian Turkey
  • dark energy — unobserved energy whose existence is proposed to account for the observed acceleration in the expansion of the universe
  • dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
  • darlingness — the quality or characteristic of being darling, sweet, or charming
  • darning egg — a rounded piece of wood or plastic used in darning to support the fabric around the hole
  • darwinistic — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
  • dastardness — the sate or quality of being a dastard
  • data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
  • data mining — Data mining involves collecting information from data stored in a database, for example in order to find out about people's shopping habits.
  • dating nail — a nail driven into a wooden tie, pole, etc., bearing on its head the date of installation or last treatment of the timber.
  • dative bond — coordinate bond
  • dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
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