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15-letter words containing t, e, n, d

  • ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
  • joint-household — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
  • jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
  • juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
  • keynote address — a speech, as at a political convention, that presents important issues, principles, policies, etc.
  • keystone comedy — a short film of the silent era, often featuring the Keystone Kops.
  • kindergarteners — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
  • knitting needle — either of two types of instruments used for hand knitting: a straight rod of steel, wood, plastic, etc., pointed at one or both ends, used in pairs, or a single curved, flexible rod with two pointed ends.
  • knuckle-dusters — brass knuckles.
  • kronecker delta — a function of two variables, i and j, which equals 1 when the variables have the same value, i = j, and equals 0 when the variables have different values, i ≠ j.
  • laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • lantern gurnard — a type of gurnard
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • late in the day — in the evening
  • lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
  • leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
  • leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
  • learner-centred — focussed on the learner rather than the teacher
  • least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • library edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
  • lie of the land — the topography of the land
  • light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • limited edition — an edition, as of a book or lithograph, limited to a specified small number of copies.
  • limited partner — special partner.
  • line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
  • liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
  • liquidity event — the ending of an investor's involvement in a business venture with a view to realizing a gain or loss from the investment
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • long-tailed tit — a small European songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with a black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail: family Paridae (tits)
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • lord lieutenant — British. the title of various high officials holding authority deputed from a sovereign.
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