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16-letter words containing nd

  • diamond district — the part of a town where diamond merchants and jewellers have their businesses
  • diamond drilling — drilling using a drill with a diamond-impregnated bit
  • diamondback moth — a small moth Plutella xylostella that has diamond-shaped markings on the underside of its front wings that are visible when the wings are folded
  • direction finder — a receiver with a loop antenna rotating on a vertical axis, used to ascertain the direction of incoming radio waves.
  • display standard — (hardware, standard)   IBM and others have introduced a bewildering plethora of graphics and text display standards for IBM PCs. The standards are mostly implemented by plugging in a video display board (or "graphics adaptor") and connecting the appropriate monitor to it. Each new standard subsumes its predecessors. For example, an EGA board can also do CGA and MDA. With the PS/2, IBM introduced the VGA standard and built it into the main system board motherboard. VGA is also available as a plug-in board for PCs from third-party vendors. Also with the PS/2, IBM introduced the 8514 high-resolution graphics standard. An 8514 adaptor board plugs into the PS/2, providing a dual-monitor capability. Graphics software had to support the major IBM graphics standards and many non-IBM, proprietary standards for displays. Either software vendors provided display drivers or display vendors provided drivers for the software package. In either case, switching software or switching display systems was fraught with compatibility problems. More colours are available from third-party vendors for some display types. See also MDA, CGA, EGA, PGA, Hercules, MCGA, VGA, SVGA, 8514, VESA.
  • double indemnity — a clause in a life-insurance or accident-insurance policy providing for payment of twice the face value of the policy in the event of accidental death.
  • draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
  • ducks and drakes — Also, duck and drake. a pastime in which flat stones or shells are thrown across water so as to skip over the surface several times before sinking.
  • dunderheadedness — Stupidity.
  • ellesmere island — a Canadian island in the Arctic Ocean: part of Nunavut; mountainous, with many glaciers. Area: 212 688 sq km (82 119 sq miles)
  • endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
  • ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
  • endocannabinoids — Plural form of endocannabinoid.
  • endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
  • endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
  • endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
  • ex-dividend date — The ex-dividend date is the date after the declaration of a dividend on which the buyer of a stock is not entitled to receive the next dividend payment.
  • falkland islands — disputed islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • fandango on core — (jargon, programming)   (Unix/C, from the Mexican dance) In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have "done a fandango on core". On low-end personal machines without an MMU, this can corrupt the operating system itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core.
  • farquhar islands — an island group in the Indian Ocean: administratively part of the Seychelles
  • fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
  • feeblemindedness — Quality of being feeble-minded; weak intellect.
  • fend for oneself — to manage by oneself; get along without help
  • ferdinand marcos — Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
  • field dependence — a psychological trait associated with having an external locus of orientation (contrasted with field independence).
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • find one's level — to find one's most suitable place socially, professionally, etc
  • find one's voice — If someone finds their voice, they start to speak in spite of fear or surprise or difficult circumstances.
  • fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
  • fishing industry — the industry of catching fish
  • flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
  • flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • force one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • fore and aft rig — a sail set in a line from one end the other of a vessel rather than in a square
  • fore-and-aft rig — a rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft.
  • foundation stone — any of the stones composing the foundation of a building.
  • founders' shares — shares awarded to the founders of a company and often granting special privileges
  • fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
  • francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
  • franz josef land — an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, E of Spitzbergen and N of Novaya Zemlya: belongs to the Russian Federation.
  • french indochina — an area in SE Asia, formerly a French colonial federation including Cochin-China, the protectorates of Annam, Cambodia, Tonkin, and Laos, and the leased territory of Kwangchowan: now comprising the three independent states of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Capital: Hanoi.
  • friendly islands — Tonga
  • friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
  • front and center — If a topic or question is front and center, a lot of attention is being paid to it or a lot of people are talking about it.
  • front-end loader — a loader having a shovel or bucket at the end of an articulated arm located at the front of the vehicle.
  • ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
  • fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
  • fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
  • fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
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