20-letter words containing t, r, a, n, d

minimum lending rate — the official interest rate charged by the Bank of England and below which it will refrain from lending money.
modify a reservation — If you modify a reservation, you change a detail of a booking because someone who has booked a room has asked you to.
motor neuron disease — Motor neuron disease is a disease which destroys the part of a person's nervous system that controls movement.
multicast addressing — Ethernet addressing scheme used to send packets to devices of a certain type or for broadcasting to all nodes. The least significant bit of the most significant byte of a multi-cast address is one.
multistep hydroplane — a motorship having a flat bottom built as a series of planes inclined forward, the ship planing on each from stem to stern as its speed increases.
mum-and-dad investor — a small-scale non-professional investor
nemine contradicente — no one contradicting; unanimously.
net national product — the gross national product less allowance for depreciation of capital goods. Abbreviation: NNP.
netherlands antilles — a Netherlands overseas territory in the Caribbean Sea, N and NE of Venezuela; includes the islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, and St. Eustatius, and the S part of St. Martin: considered an integral part of the Dutch realm. 366 sq. mi. (948 sq. km). Capital: Willemstad.
new democratic party — the Canadian social democratic party formed in 1961
newcastle-under-lyme — a town in W central England, in Staffordshire. Pop: 74 427 (2001)
nonaccidental injury — damage, such as a bruise, burn, or fracture, deliberately inflicted on a child or an old person
nondirective therapy — client-centered therapy.
nonrepeating decimal — a decimal representation of any irrational number, having the property that no sequence of digits is repeated ad infinitum.
north atlantic drift — an ocean current flowing NE toward the British Isles, formed by the convergence of the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current SE of Newfoundland.
north canadian river — a river in NE New Mexico, E Texas, and E Oklahoma, flowing SE to the Canadian River. 760 miles (1223 km) long.
north richland hills — a town in N Texas.
northern white cedar — any of several chiefly coniferous trees valued for their wood, especially Chamaecyparis thyoides, of the eastern U.S., or Thuja occidentalis (northern white cedar) of northeastern North America.
not worth the candle — not worth the price or trouble entailed (esp in the phrase the game's not worth the candle)
notre dame mountains — a mountain range in E Quebec, Canada, an extension of the Green Mountains in Vermont and a portion of the Appalachian Mountains: about 500 miles (800 km) long, rising about 2000 feet (610 meters).
on the drawing board — in the planning stage
on the starboard bow — within 45 degrees to the starboard of straight ahead
one's heart's desire — If you say that someone or something is your heart's desire, you mean that you want that person or thing very much.
operant conditioning — conditioning (def 1).
operating conditions — Operating conditions are a set of conditions for operating a particular system or process.
operational database — (database) A database containing up-to-date, modifiable data, in contrast to a decision support database.
operator overloading — overloading
ophthalmodynamometer — a device for determining the nearest point of ocular convergence.
optical mark reading — the reading of marks by an optical device whereby the information can be stored in machine-readable form
paint the town (red) — to go on a boisterous spree; carouse
parataxic distortion — a distortion in perception, especially of interpersonal relationships, based on a tendency to perceive others in accordance with a pattern determined by previous experiences.
partial differential — an expression obtained from a given function of several variables by taking the partial derivative with respect to one of the variables and multiplying by the increment in that variable.
partitioned data set — (file format) (PDS) A data set on an IBM mainframe that contains members, each of which acts like a separate data set. Partitioned data sets are more space-efficient than individual data sets, because they can put more than one data set on a track. They are also used to hold libraries, with one function per member. The syntax for a member is NAME.OF.PDS(MEMBER) although some systems (such as Phoenix) could use NAME.OF.PDS:MEMBER Original PDSes were of fixed size, and needed frequent compression to recover space after deleting or changing members. Newer PDS/E Extended PDSes do not have this problem.
paternal grandfather — the father of someone's father
paternal grandmother — the mother of someone's father
pentobarbital sodium — a barbiturate drug used in medicine as a sedative and hypnotic. Formula: C11H17N2O3Na
periarteritis nodosa — polyarteritis.
periodontal membrane — the collagenous, fibrous connective tissue between the cementum of the tooth and the alveolus.
perpendicular gothic — the style of Gothic architecture in England during the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by tracery having vertical lines, a four-centred arch, and fan vaulting
personality disorder — any of a group of mental disorders characterized by deeply ingrained maladaptive patterns of behavior and personality style, which are usually recognizable as early as adolescence and are often lifelong in duration.
personnel department — business: human resources
postal delivery zone — zone (def 10).
postgraduate student — a student who has obtained a degree from a university, etc, and is pursuing studies for a more advanced qualification
postnatal depression — a form of clinical depression that occurs in mothers after the birth of a baby
potential difference — voltage
pound cost averaging — a method of accumulating capital by investing a fixed sum in a particular security at regular intervals, in order to achieve an average purchase price below the arithmetic average of the market prices on the purchase dates
powhatan confederacy — a network of Algonquian-speaking Indian settlements in Virginia that was ruled by Powhatan.
predicate nominative — (in Latin, Greek, and certain other languages) a predicate noun or adjective in the nominative case.
presidential primary — a direct primary for the selection of state delegates to a national party convention and the expression of preference for a U.S. presidential nominee.
price discrimination — the practice of offering identical goods to different buyers at different prices, when the goods cost the same.

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