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15-letter words containing r, e, d, s

  • common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
  • compressed slip — (networking)   (CSLIP) VanJacobsen TCP header compression. A version of SLIP using compression. CSLIP has no effect on the data portion of the packet and has nothing to do with compression by modem. It does reduce the TCP header from 40 bytes to 7 bytes, a noticeable difference when doing telnet with lots of little packets. CSLIP has no effect on UDP, only TCP.
  • 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.
  • concession road — (esp in Ontario) one of a series of roads separating concessions in a township
  • 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
  • consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
  • consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
  • contact address — an address where a person can be contacted
  • contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
  • converted steel — cement steel.
  • coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
  • corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
  • correspondences — communication by exchange of letters.
  • correspondently — in a correspondent manner
  • correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
  • corticosteroids — Plural form of corticosteroid.
  • could care less — feel(s) the least possible degree of interest, sympathy, etc.
  • coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
  • course of study — an extended period of organized study, often leading to a qualification
  • cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
  • cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
  • cradle snatcher — someone who marries or has an affair with a much younger person
  • credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
  • credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
  • creme de cassis — a sweet, purplish-red liqueur flavored with black currants
  • creme de fraise — a liqueur flavored principally with strawberries.
  • crescent-shaped — having the shape of a crescent
  • crestone needle — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,197 feet (4330 meters).
  • crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
  • crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
  • culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
  • current density — the ratio of the electric current flowing at a particular point in a conductor to the cross-sectional area of the conductor taken perpendicular to the current flow at that point. It is measured in amperes per square metre
  • cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
  • cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
  • daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
  • daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
  • danse du ventre — belly dance
  • darning needles — a long needle with a long eye used in darning.
  • data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
  • database server — A stand-alone computer in a local area network that holds and manages the database. It implies that database management functions, such as locating the actual record being requested, is performed in the server computer. Contrast with file server, which acts as a remote disk drive and requires that large parts of the database, for example, entire indexes, be transmitted to the user's computer where the real database management tasks are performed. First-generation personal computer database software was not designed for a network; thus, modified versions of the software released by the vendors employed the file server concept. Second-generation products, designed for local area networks, perform the management tasks in the server where they should be done, and consequently are turning the file server into a database server.
  • dead-end street — a street blocked at one end
  • dealer's choice — a card game, as poker, in which the dealer decides what particular game is to be played, often depending on the number of players, and designates any special variations or unusual rules, including setting the stakes.
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
  • declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
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