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15-letter words containing n, o, a, d

  • cast around for — If you cast around for something or cast about for it, you try to find it or think of it.
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
  • celandine poppy — a poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, of the east-central U.S., having one pair of deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • chandler period — the period of the oscillation (Chandler wobble) of the earth's axis, varying between 416 and 433 days.
  • chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
  • chanson d'amour — love song.
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
  • chondrosarcomas — Plural form of chondrosarcoma.
  • chop and change — When people chop and change, they keep changing their minds about what to do or how to act.
  • chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • clamp down (on) — to become more strict (with)
  • climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
  • cloak-and-sword — (of a drama or work of fiction) dealing with characters who wear cloaks and swords; concerned with the customs and romance of the nobility in bygone times.
  • 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
  • closed-end loan — A closed-end loan is a loan such as an auto loan, with fixed terms, and where the money is lent all at once and paid back by a particular date.
  • code management — source code management
  • 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
  • colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
  • command economy — In a command economy, business activities and the use of resources are decided by the government, and not by market forces.
  • commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
  • commodification — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
  • commoditization — The transformation of something into a commodity.
  • common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
  • common-isdn-api — Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
  • completion date — (in Britain) the date on which the sale of a piece of property is final
  • complicatedness — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
  • compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
  • 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.
  • confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • congealed salad — a molded gelatin salad containing chopped fruit or vegetables.
  • 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
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