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15-letter words containing rd

  • ordinary degree — a university degree without honours
  • ordinary income — taxable income, as salary and wages, other than capital gains.
  • ordinary rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable to that of a private in the army
  • ordinary seaman — a seaman insufficiently skilled to be classified as an able-bodied seaman. Abbreviation: O.D., O.S., o.s.
  • ordinary shares — British. a share of common stock.
  • ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
  • outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
  • outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • overdevelopment — Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped.
  • overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • oxford movement — the movement toward High Church principles within the Church of England, originating at Oxford University in 1833 in opposition to liberalizing, rationalizing, and evangelical tendencies and emphasizing the principles of primitive and patristic Christianity as well as the historic and catholic character of the church.
  • paternity order — a court order which declares a child's paternity
  • pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
  • phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
  • piano accordion — accordion (def 1).
  • primordial soup — the seas and atmosphere as they existed on earth before the existence of life, consisting primarily of an oxygen-free gaseous mixture containing chiefly water, hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide.
  • probation order — an order imposed by a magistrate or judge under which an offender is sentenced to probation rather than imprisonment
  • promotion board — group that markets or advertises sth
  • qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
  • receiving order — court order
  • record producer — sb who manages music recordings
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
  • religious order — monks: monastery
  • richard gabriel — (person)   (Dick, RPG) Dr. Richard P. Gabriel. A noted SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic. Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation. He founded the successful company, Lucid Technologies, Inc.. In 1996 he was Distinguished Computer Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. (later renamed ObjectShare, Inc.). See also gabriel, Qlambda, QLISP, saga.
  • richard hamming — (person)   Professor Richard Wesley Hamming (1915-02-11 - 1998-01-07). An American mathematician known for his work in information theory (notably error detection and correction), having invented the concepts of Hamming code, Hamming distance, and Hamming window. Richard Hamming received his B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1937, his M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1939, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1942. In 1945 Hamming joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. In 1946, after World War II, Hamming joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories where he worked with both Shannon and John Tukey. He worked there until 1976 when he accepted a chair of computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California. Hamming's fundamental paper on error-detecting and error-correcting codes ("Hamming codes") appeared in 1950. His work on the IBM 650 leading to the development in 1956 of the L2 programming language. This never displaced the workhorse language L1 devised by Michael V Wolontis. By 1958 the 650 had been elbowed aside by the 704. Although best known for error-correcting codes, Hamming was primarily a numerical analyst, working on integrating differential equations and the Hamming spectral window used for smoothing data before Fourier analysis. He wrote textbooks, propounded aphorisms ("the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers"), and was a founder of the ACM and a proponent of open-shop computing ("better to solve the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way."). In 1968 he was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and awarded the Turing Prize from the Association for Computing Machinery. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded Hamming the Emanuel R Piore Award in 1979 and a medal in 1988.
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • rudyard kipling — (Joseph) Rudyard [ruhd-yerd] /ˈrʌd yərd/ (Show IPA), 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
  • sanitary cordon — cordon sanitaire.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • say a few words — to give a brief speech
  • sb of few words — A person of few words says very little, especially about their opinions or feelings.
  • sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
  • scala cordonata — a ramp having the form of broad, slightly inclined steps.
  • securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
  • seven-card stud — a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in each of the first two rounds, one card face up in each of the next four rounds, and one card face down in the last round, each of the last five rounds being followed by a betting interval. Compare stud poker (def 1).
  • shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
  • silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
  • single standard — a single set of principles or rules applying to everyone, as a single moral code applying to both men and women, especially in sexual behavior. Compare double standard.
  • sound recordist — recordist.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • speech disorder — an inability to produce normal speech
  • spread the word — make others aware
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