15-letter words containing t, e, n, d
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- cottonseed cake — cotton cake.
- cottonseed meal — the residue of cottonseed kernels from which oil has been extracted, used as fodder or fertilizer
- counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
- counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- countertendency — an opposite tendency
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- country dweller — a person who lives in the country
- covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
- 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.
- credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
- creditor nation — a nation that owes less to foreign and international bodies than they owe to it
- creme de menthe — a liqueur flavoured with peppermint, usually bright green in colour
- 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).
- crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
- currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
- 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
- cyclopentadiene — a colourless liquid unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon obtained in the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons and the distillation of coal tar: used in the manufacture of plastics and insecticides. Formula: C5H6
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
- danse du ventre — belly dance
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- data collection — the process of gathering information or data
- data link layer — (networking) Layer two, the second lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The data link layer splits data into frames (see fragmentation) for sending on the physical layer and receives acknowledgement frames. It performs error checking and re-transmits frames not received correctly. It provides an error-free virtual channel to the network layer. The data link layer is split into an upper sublayer, Logical Link Control (LLC), and a lower sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC). Example protocols at this layer are ABP, Go Back N, SRP.
- data link level — data link layer
- 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.
- data protection — (in Britain) safeguards for individuals relating to personal data stored on a computer
- data redundancy — (data, communications, storage) Any technique that stores or transmits extra, derived data that can be used to detect or repair errors, either in hardware or software. Examples are parity bits and the cyclic redundancy check. If the cost of errors is high enough, e.g. in a safety-critical system, redundancy may be used in both hardware AND software with three separate computers programmed by three separate teams ("triple redundancy") and some system to check that they all produce the same answer, or some kind of majority voting system. The term is not typically used for other, less beneficial, duplication of data. 2. (communications) The proportion of a message's gross information content that can be eliminated without losing essential information. Technically, redundancy is one minus the ratio of the actual uncertainty to the maximum uncertainty. This is the fraction of the structure of the message which is determined not by the choice of the sender, but rather by the accepted statistical rules governing the choice of the symbols in question.
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
- day of judgment — Judgment Day
- de-unionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
- deacidification — a procedure that is carried out to lessen the level of acid present in paper
- dead-cat bounce — a temporary recovery in prices following a substantial fall as a result of speculators buying stocks they have already sold rather than as a result of a genuine reversal of the downward trend
- dead-end street — a street blocked at one end
- deadman's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
- dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
- death in venice — a novella (1913) by Thomas Mann.
- debathification — The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of Iraq from the military and civil office following the ousting of w Saddam Hussein.
- 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
- decalcification — the act or process of decalcifying.
- decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound