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15-letter words containing de

  • clearheadedness — The quality of being clearheaded.
  • clinically dead — having no respiration, no heartbeat, and with no contraction of the pupils when exposed to a strong light
  • clouded leopard — a feline, Neofelis nebulosa, of SE Asia and Indonesia with a yellowish-brown coat marked with darker spots and blotches
  • code management — source code management
  • code of conduct — The code of conduct for a group or organization is an agreement on rules of behaviour for the members of that group or organization.
  • codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
  • college student — a student at a university or college
  • colorado desert — an arid region of SE California and NW Mexico, west of the Colorado River. Area: over 5000 sq km (2000 sq miles)
  • commercial code — a telegraphic code designed to convey a message with a minimum number of words and thereby reduce toll costs.
  • committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
  • commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
  • 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.
  • condescendingly — In a condescending manner.
  • condition codes — a set of single bits that indicate specific conditions within a computer. The values of the condition codes are often determined by the outcome of a prior software operation and their principal use is to govern choices between alternative instruction sequences
  • confederate war — the American Civil War.
  • confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
  • confidence test — (testing)   Tests to confirm that the results of a program lie within certain ranges according to the expected probability distribution.
  • confidence vote — a vote to clarify whether someone or something has the support of those present
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • considerateness — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
  • contact details — the information required to contact someone, such as an address or telephone number
  • coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
  • 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
  • coude telescope — a telescope in which light from the primary mirror is reflected along the polar axis to additional mirrors, and in which the focus (coudé focus) is independent of the telescope's motion, permitting the use of heavy instruments without disturbing the delicate balance of the telescope.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
  • countertendency — an opposite tendency
  • coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
  • coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
  • creme de cassis — a sweet, purplish-red liqueur flavored with black currants
  • creme de fraise — a liqueur flavored principally with strawberries.
  • creme de menthe — a liqueur flavoured with peppermint, usually bright green in colour
  • croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
  • cry blue murder — to make an outcry
  • 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
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
  • cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
  • cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • day of the dead — an annual celebration to honor the spirits of the dead, observed in Mexico and other Latin American countries on November 1 and 2, concurrently with All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day.
  • de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • de-unionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
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