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17-letter words containing n, e, r, d, o

  • dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
  • disintermediation — the act of removing funds from savings banks and placing them into short-term investments on which the interest-rate yields are higher.
  • disorderly person — a person guilty of disorderly conduct.
  • disproportionates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disproportionate.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • distribution line — A distribution line is a line or system for distributing power from a transmission system to a consumer that operates at less than 69,000 volts.
  • district attorney — an officer who acts as attorney for the people or government within a specified district.
  • doberman pinscher — one of a German breed of medium-sized, short-haired dogs having a black, brown, or blue coat with rusty brown markings.
  • document examiner — (hypertext, tool)   A high-performance hypertext system by Symbolics that provides on-line access to their user documentation.
  • dog in the manger — a person who selfishly keeps something that he or she does not really need or want so that others may not use or enjoy it.
  • dollar a year man — of or being an official or employee, especially a federal appointee, who receives a token annual salary, usually of one dollar: a dollar-a-year man.
  • dollars-and-cents — considered strictly in terms of money: from a dollars-and-cents viewpoint.
  • doorstep salesman — a door-to-door salesman
  • double refraction — the separation of a ray of light into two unequally refracted, plane-polarized rays of orthogonal polarizations, occurring in crystals in which the velocity of light rays is not the same in all directions.
  • double track line — a railway line with double track
  • douglas engelbart — (person)   Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse, Web-board.
  • dow jones average — The Dow Jones Average is a daily measurement of stock-exchange prices, based on the average price of a selected number of securities.
  • downwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • downwardly-mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • drained of colour — colourless
  • dramatis personae — (used with a plural verb) the characters in a play.
  • drawn-thread work — ornamental needlework done by drawing threads out of the fabric and using the remaining threads to form lacelike patterns
  • dress-down friday — In some companies employees are allowed to wear clothes that are less smart than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a dress-down Friday.
  • drive-by download — an incidence of an unwanted program being automatically downloaded to a computer, often without the user's knowledge
  • drive-by shooting — an incident in which a person, building, or vehicle is shot at by someone in a moving vehicle
  • droit du seigneur — the supposed right claimable by a feudal lord to have sexual relations with the bride of a vassal on her first night of marriage.
  • drop on the floor — To react to an error condition by silently discarding messages or other valuable data. "The gateway ran out of memory, so it just started dropping packets on the floor." Also frequently used of faulty mail and netnews relay sites that lose messages. See also black hole, bit bucket.
  • drop one's bundle — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
  • droplet infection — infection spread by airborne droplets of secretions from the nose, throat, or lungs.
  • early closing day — a day on which most shops in a town or area close after lunch
  • eastern orthodoxy — the faith, practice, membership, and government of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
  • eastern tradition — any of the philosophies and teachings that derive from Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and other spiritual traditions of the East
  • edgar watson howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • electrodeposition — The deposition of a metal on a cathode during electrolysis; used as a method of purification.
  • emissions trading — the buying and selling of allowances for pollutant emissions
  • ends of the earth — remote regions
  • enforcement order — an order by a court to force a person or organization to comply with a regulation or law
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • error of judgment — a wrong or bad decision
  • ethernet meltdown — A network meltdown on Ethernet.
  • ethinyloestradiol — Alternative form of ethinylestradiol.
  • european standard — a specification to be used as a consistent rule or guideline in the manufacture or selling of a certain product or service traded within Europe
  • examination board — an organization that sets and corrects exams
  • exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
  • export department — the department of a business concerned with the export of the business's goods or services
  • export-orientated — (of an industry, company, etc) mainly concerned with the export of goods or services
  • extraordinariness — The property of being extraordinary.
  • extraordinary ray — the plane-polarized ray of light that does not obey the laws of refraction in a doubly refracting crystal
  • fade in (or out) — to appear or cause to appear (or disappear) gradually; make or become more (or less) distinct
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