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17-letter words containing nd

  • compound pendulum — physical pendulum.
  • compound sentence — a sentence containing at least two coordinate clauses
  • condensing boiler — an energy-efficient boiler that makes use of what would otherwise be waste heat
  • condescendingness — The state or quality of being condescending.
  • consolidated fund — a fund into which tax revenue is paid in order to meet standing charges, esp interest payments on the national debt
  • consumer spending — the percentage of an economy that is accounted for by what consumers spend
  • contraband of war — war materiel, as ammunition or weapons, which, by international law, may rightfully be intercepted and seized by either belligerent when shipped to the other one by a neutral country
  • contraindications — Plural form of contraindication.
  • cook island māori — a dialect of Māori spoken in the Cook Islands
  • correspondentship — The role or status of correspondent.
  • counterpropaganda — propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.
  • credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
  • cylinder capacity — the cylinder volume that is swept by the pistons of an internal-combustion engine
  • damon and pythias — two friends noted for their mutual loyalty. Damon offered himself as a hostage for Pythias, who was to be executed for treason by Dionysius of Syracuse. When Pythias returned to save his friend's life, he was pardoned
  • daphnis and chloe — two lovers in pastoral literature, esp in a prose idyll attributed to the Greek writer Longus
  • de facto standard — A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, but which nevertheless has a large market share. The archetypal example of a de facto standard is the IBM PC which, despite is many glaring technical deficiencies, has gained such a large share of the personal computer market that it is now popular simply because it is popular and therefore enjoys fierce competition in pricing and software development.
  • dead man's handle — a safety switch on a piece of machinery, such as a train, that allows operation only while depressed by the operator
  • defending counsel — a barrister who defends a client in a trial
  • deindustrializing — Present participle of deindustrialize.
  • delaney amendment — an amendment to the U. S. Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act banning the use of carcinogenic food additives, as certain artificial sweeteners and food colorings.
  • demand management — the regulation of total spending in an economy to required levels, attempted by a government esp in order to avoid unemployment or inflation: a measure advocated by Keynesian economists
  • dendroarchaeology — (archaeology) the science that uses dendrochronology to date wooden material from archaeological sites.
  • dendroclimatology — The science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions.
  • descending rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by the succession of metrical feet each of which is composed of one accented syllable followed by one or more unaccented syllables.
  • diocletian window — a window in the form of a round-headed archway with a narrower compartment on either side, the side compartments usually being capped with entablatures on which the arch of the central compartment rests.
  • display standards — display standard
  • dog and pony show — an elaborate sales, advertising, or publicity presentation or campaign.
  • dollars-and-cents — considered strictly in terms of money: from a dollars-and-cents viewpoint.
  • double-ended bolt — a headless bolt threaded at both ends.
  • drop one's bundle — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
  • dutch east indies — a former name of the Republic of Indonesia.
  • dutch west indies — 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.
  • east grand rapids — a town in W central Michigan, near Grand Rapids.
  • east indian lotus — a southern Asian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, of the water lily family, having fragrant pink or rose flowers.
  • emergency landing — an occasion when a place is forced to land: for example, because of a mechanical fault, bad weather, terrorism, etc.
  • ends of the earth — remote regions
  • equalization fund — a monetary reserve established by a country to provide funds for maintaining the official exchange rates of its currency by equalizing the buying and selling of foreign exchange.
  • escaping tendency — a property of a gas, related to its partial pressure, that expresses its tendency to escape or expand, given by d(log ef) = dμ/ RT, where μ is the chemical potential, R the gas constant, and T the thermodynamic temperature
  • eupen and malmédy — a region of Belgium in Liège province: ceded by Germany in 1919. Pop: 29 372 (2004 est)
  • european standard — a specification to be used as a consistent rule or guideline in the manufacture or selling of a certain product or service traded within Europe
  • exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
  • facts and figures — details; precise information
  • falkland islander — a person from the Falkland Islands
  • fear and loathing — (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous - Intel 8086s, COBOL, EBCDIC, or any IBM machine except the Rios (also known as the RS/6000).
  • feathered friends — Birds are sometimes referred to as our feathered friends.
  • federal land bank — a U.S. federal bank for making long-term loans to farmers.
  • fendalton tractor — a four-wheel drive recreational vehicle
  • fifth commandment — “Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee”: fifth of the Ten Commandments.
  • find fault (with) — to seek and point out faults (of); complain (about); criticize
  • find one's tongue — to recover the ability to talk, as after shock or embarrassment
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