15-letter words containing n, o, d
- chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
- chondrosarcomas — Plural form of chondrosarcoma.
- chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
- 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
- cinder concrete — concrete having small coal clinkers as an aggregate.
- 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 position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
- closed sentence — a formula that contains no free occurrence of any variable
- closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
- closed-end fund — A closed-end fund is an investment with a limited number of shares that does not allow new investors.
- 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.
- cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
- code management — source code management
- code of conduct — The code of conduct for a group or organization is an agreement on rules of behaviour for the members of that group or organization.
- 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
- college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
- college student — a student at a university or college
- colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
- color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
- combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
- come to no good — to come to a bad end; end in failure, trouble, etc.
- 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 shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
- common-isdn-api — Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
- compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
- 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 engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
- compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
- comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- comrade in arms — a fellow soldier.