19-letter words containing nd

cloakroom attendant — a person whose job is to check coats and other personal items for visitors to a place
co-respondent shoes — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
cobol-1961 extended — (language) A short-lived separation of COBOL specifications.
cock and bull story — an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth: Don't ask him about his ancestry unless you want to hear a cock-and-bull story.
cock-and-bull story — If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true.
command and control — authority exercised by a commander or a military force
command interpreter — (operating system) A program which reads textual commands from the user or from a file and executes them. Some commands may be executed directly within the interpreter itself (e.g. setting variables or control constructs), others may cause it to load and execute other files. When an IBM PC is booted BIOS loads and runs the MS-DOS command interpreter into memory from file COMMAND.COM found on a floppy disk or hard disk drive. The commands that COMMAND.COM recognizes (e.g. COPY, DIR, PRN) are called internal commands, in contrast to external commands which are executable files.
command line option — (software) (Or "option", "flag", "switch", "option switch") An argument to a command that modifies its function rather than providing data. Options generally start with "-" in Unix or "/" in MS-DOS. This is usually followed by a single letter or occasionally a digit. More recently, GNU software adopted the --longoptionname style, usually in addition to traditional, single-character, -x style equivalents. Some commands require each option to be a separate argument, introduced by a new "-" or "/", others allow multiple option letters to be concatenated into a single argument with a single "-" or "/", e.g. "ls -al". A few Unix commands (e.g. ar, tar) allow the "-" to be omitted. Some options may or must be followed by a value, e.g. "cc prog.c -o prog", sometimes with and sometimes without an intervening space.
command performance — A command performance is a special performance of a play or show which is given for a head of state.
commercially-minded — knowledgeable about business; interested in making money
compound microscope — an instrument for magnifying small objects, consisting of a lens of short focal length for forming an image that is further magnified by a second lens of longer focal length
convergent boundary — a major geologic discontinuity or suture marking the juncture of lithospheric plates that have been joined by plate tectonics.
correspondence card — a piece of card, often with the sender's name and address printed on the top, designed to be used for sending brief notes to people through the post
counterconditioning — the conditioning of a response that is incompatible with some previously learned response; for example, in psychotherapy an anxious person might be taught relaxation, which is incompatible with anxiety
country and western — Country and western is the same as country music.
country-and-western — country music.
court correspondent — (in Britain) a journalist who covers stories about the royal family
cowboys and indians — a children's game in which players imitate the supposed behavior of cowboys and Indians in conflict, as in shooting, chasing, and capturing.
cup-and-saucer vine — a woody, Mexican vine, Cobaea scandens, of the phlox family, having bell-shaped, violet-colored or greenish-purple flowers with an inflated, leaflike calyx and long, curved stamens.
current expenditure — expenditure taking place within the financial year in question
cyril of alexandria — Saint. ?375–444 ad, Christian theologian and patriarch of Alexandria. Feast day: June 27 or June 9
dance attendance on — to be always near so as to wait on, lavish attention on, etc.
darby and joan club — a club for elderly people
defence expenditure — the amount that a country spends on military measures or resources
deindustrialisation — Alternative spelling of deindustrialization.
deindustrialization — the decline in importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of a nation or area
dendrochronological — Pertaining to dendrochronology.
dendrogeomorphology — (geology) the science that uses dendrochronology to study changes to the Earth's surface over time.
dependable software — software reliability
diamond anniversary — a 60th, or occasionally 75th, anniversary
diamond ring effect — a phenomenon, sometimes observed immediately before and after a total eclipse of the sun, in which one of Baily's beads is much brighter than the others, resembling a diamond ring around the moon.
diamond-leaf laurel — a tree, Pittosporum rhombifolium, of Australia, having coarsely toothed, oval or diamond-shaped leaves and white flowers, widely planted as an ornamental in the southwestern U.S.
diamond-point spoon — a spoon having a handle terminating in a polygonal, pointed knob.
direction indicator — aerial used in wireless communication
electroconductivity — Electrical conductivity.
empty-nest syndrome — a condition, often involving depression, loneliness, etc, experienced by parents living in a home from which the children have grown up and left
end of transmission — (character) (EOT) The mnemonic for ASCII character 4.
end-to-end solution — (jargon) (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution.
endowment assurance — a form of life insurance that provides for the payment of a specified sum directly to the policyholder at a designated date or to his beneficiary should he die before this date
endowment insurance — Endowment insurance is a type of life insurance that pays a particular sum directly to the policyholder at a stated date, or to a beneficiary if the policyholder dies before this date.
extendible compiler — (language) (ETC) A Fortran-like compiler that can be extended with macros.
fair-weather friend — a person who cannot be relied on in situations of hardship or difficulty
fernando de noronha — an island in the S Atlantic, about 125 miles (200 km) E of easternmost tip of Brazil: a Brazilian penal colony. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
few and far between — not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
fifteenth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”.
finds its/their way — If something finds its way somewhere, it comes to that place, especially by chance.
floating foundation — a foundation used in yielding soil, having for its footing a raft tending to displace a weight greater than that of the building.
foundation subjects — the subjects studied as part of the National Curriculum, including the compulsory core subjects
friend of the court — amicus curiae.
front-end financing — money or costs required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way

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