0%

15-letter words containing t, o, a, n, d

  • arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • at the hands of — If someone experiences a particular kind of treatment, especially unpleasant treatment, at the hands of a person or organization, they receive it from them.
  • audio equipment — electrical devices used to play or record sound
  • auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • augmented roman — a writing system based on an expanded English alphabet, consisting of 43 characters representing different phonemes of spoken English, used for teaching beginners to read. Abbreviation: I.T.A., i.t.a.
  • baconian method — induction (def 4a).
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • bag on the side — An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly, inelegant, or bloated. Also "to hang a bag on the side [of]". "C++? That's just a bag on the side of C." "They want me to hang a bag on the side of the accounting system."
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • barn-door skate — an Atlantic skate, Raja laevis, that grows to a length of 4 feet (1.2 meters) or more.
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • beast of burden — A beast of burden is an animal such as an ox or a donkey that is used for carrying or pulling things.
  • beat the bounds — (formerly) to define the boundaries of a parish by making a procession around them and hitting the ground with rods
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • beyond the pale — If you think that someone's actions or behaviour are not acceptable, you can say that they are beyond the pale.
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • boating holiday — a holiday spent sailing or travelling in a canal boat, cruiser, etc
  • body toning bar — a weighted exercise bar made of steel encased in a layer of foam, used for toning and strength training.
  • brand extension — the practice of using a well-known brand name to promote new products or services in unrelated fields
  • bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
  • bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
  • calydonian hunt — the pursuit by Meleager, Atalanta, and others of a savage boar (Calydonian boar) sent by Artemis to lay waste to Calydon.
  • canadianization — to make Canadian in character.
  • cardinal points — the four main points of the compass: north, south, east, and west
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
  • cast around for — If you cast around for something or cast about for it, you try to find it or think of it.
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
  • child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
  • 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.
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
  • 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
  • code management — source code management
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?