15-letter words containing di
- commodification — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- commoditization — The transformation of something into a commodity.
- commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
- common disaster — the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident.
- compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
- comprehendingly — In an comprehending manner; knowingly.
- 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
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contradictorily — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
- contraindicated — not advisable because of contraindications
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
- coordinate bond — a type of covalent chemical bond in which both the shared electrons are provided by one of the atoms
- cordillera real — a range of the Andes, in Bolivia. Highest peak, Illimani, 21,201 feet (6462 meters).
- correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
- credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
- credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
- 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
- crocodile river — a river in N South Africa, rising north of Johannesburg and flowing north-westerly into the Marico River on the Botswanan border; a tributary of the Limpopo
- crocodile tears — If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
- crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
- cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
- cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
- cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
- cut (up) didoes — to behave in mischievous or silly way
- 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
- daffodil yellow — a bright yellow colour
- data dictionary — an index of data held in a database and used to assist in the access to data
- deacidification — a procedure that is carried out to lessen the level of acid present in paper
- dedifferentiate — to undergo the process of dedifferentiation
- deep-sea diving — the activity of diving and exploring in the deep parts of the sea
- deindividuation — the loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility
- descending node — the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the south (opposed to ascending node).
- diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diadochokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
- diagonalisation — (UK) In matrix algebra, the process of converting a square matrix into a diagonal matrix, usually to find the eigenvalues of the matrix.
- diagonalization — (in linear algebra) the process of diagonalizing
- diaheliotropism — the tendency among plants to respond to the light of the sun by orienting their leaves perpendicular to the sun's rays, such that the upper surface of the leaves receives maximum light
- dialectological — Of or relating to dialectology.
- diallyl sulfide — allyl sulfide.
- diamine oxidase — an enzyme, occurring in the digestive system, that inactivates histamine by removal of its amino group
- diamond cutting — the art or work of cutting and shaping rough diamonds to make them suitable for use by the jewellery trade