19-letter words containing n, s, d
- consumer confidence — If there is consumer confidence, people generally are willing to spend money and buy things.
- contact insecticide — an insecticide that kills on contact, rather than after ingestion or absorption
- contradistinctively — In contradistinction.
- contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
- contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.
- conventional wisdom — The conventional wisdom about something is the generally accepted view of it.
- conversion disorder — a psychological disorder in which severe physical symptoms like blindness or paralysis appear with no apparent physical cause
- convulsive disorder — any of various types of epilepsy.
- correspondence card — a piece of card, often with the sender's name and address printed on the top, designed to be used for sending brief notes to people through the post
- counter-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
- counterdemonstrator — Someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration that is happening nearby at the same time.
- counterpoise bridge — another name for bascule bridge
- country and western — Country and western is the same as country music.
- country-and-western — country music.
- court correspondent — (in Britain) a journalist who covers stories about the royal family
- cowboys and indians — a children's game in which players imitate the supposed behavior of cowboys and Indians in conflict, as in shooting, chasing, and capturing.
- cracked compression — Cracked compression is a separation process for separating hydrocarbons further, with an increase in the pressure of the cracked gas.
- cracked gas cooling — Cracked gas cooling is a process in which the temperature of a cracked gas is reduced in order to separate it into different product streams.
- credit someone with — to believe that someone has or is responsible for; ascribe to someone
- crystallized ginger — sugar-coated ginger
- cudgel one's brains — to think hard about a problem
- cup-and-saucer vine — a woody, Mexican vine, Cobaea scandens, of the phlox family, having bell-shaped, violet-colored or greenish-purple flowers with an inflated, leaflike calyx and long, curved stamens.
- customs declaration — a form declaring the nature and value of goods, etc, for customs purposes
- daisy-wheel printer — a type of printer that uses a daisywheel
- data link switching — (networking) (DLSw) A standard for transporting IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) traffic over an Internet protocol network. Initially, in 1992, DLSw was proprietary to IBM. It was submitted to the IETF as RFC 1434 in 1993, later updated by RFC 1795.
- database management — the maintenance of information stored in a computer system
- datatron 200 series — (computer) A family of computers produced by Burroughs that included the Datatron 204 and Datatron 220.
- davy jones's locker — the bottom of the sea; grave of those drowned at sea or buried there
- de-militarised zone — (networking) (DMZ) (From the military term for an area between two opponents where fighting is prevented) DMZ Ethernets connect networks and computers controlled by different bodies. They may be external or internal. External DMZ Ethernets link regional networks with routers to internal networks. Internal DMZ Ethernets link local nodes with routers to the regional networks. Compare red zone.
- deacetyltransferase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that remove acetyl groups, especially from a lysine residue of a histone.
- death of a salesman — a play (1949) by Arthur Miller.
- deathbed confession — a confession that somebody makes just before he or she dies, usually relating to some long concealed crime or secret
- declare an interest — to make known one's connection, esp a prejudicial connection, with an affair
- deflate compression — deflate
- deflationary spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- deindustrialisation — Alternative spelling of deindustrialization.
- deindustrialization — the decline in importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of a nation or area
- deinstitutionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deinstitutionalize.
- demonstration model — a nearly new product, such as a car or washing machine, that has been used only to demonstrate its performance by a dealer and is offered for sale at a discount
- dental receptionist — a receptionist working in a dental surgery
- deoxycorticosterone — a corticosteroid hormone important in maintaining sodium and water balance in the body
- deoxyribonucleoside — a compound composed of deoxyribose and either a purine or a pyrimidine.
- department of state — the department of the U.S. federal government that sets forth and maintains the foreign policy of the U.S., especially in negotiations with foreign governments and international organizations. Abbreviation: DOS.
- departmentalisation — Alternative spelling of departmentalization.
- dependable software — software reliability
- design in real time — (programming) (Dirt) A user interface builder for the X Window System by R. Hesketh.
- detective constable — a police officer who investigates crime and who is of the lowest rank
- detective inspector — a police officer who investigates crime and who ranks above a detective sergeant but below a detective chief inspector
- devils-on-horseback — a savoury of prunes wrapped in bacon slices and served on toast
- diamond anniversary — a 60th, or occasionally 75th, anniversary