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15-letter words containing a, d, e, n, u

  • bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
  • bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • butter-and-eggs — any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • calcium cyanide — a white or grayish-black compound, Ca(CN) 2, used as an insecticide and rodent poison.
  • cardinal number — A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number.
  • cardinal virtue — anything considered to be an important or characteristic virtue: Tenacity is his cardinal virtue.
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • castellated nut — a nut that has indentations similar to battlements
  • central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • chinese mustard — brown mustard.
  • church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
  • church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
  • circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
  • compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
  • contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
  • corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
  • cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
  • counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
  • cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
  • currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
  • daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
  • danse du ventre — belly dance
  • dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
  • data redundancy — (data, communications, storage)   Any technique that stores or transmits extra, derived data that can be used to detect or repair errors, either in hardware or software. Examples are parity bits and the cyclic redundancy check. If the cost of errors is high enough, e.g. in a safety-critical system, redundancy may be used in both hardware AND software with three separate computers programmed by three separate teams ("triple redundancy") and some system to check that they all produce the same answer, or some kind of majority voting system. The term is not typically used for other, less beneficial, duplication of data. 2.   (communications)   The proportion of a message's gross information content that can be eliminated without losing essential information. Technically, redundancy is one minus the ratio of the actual uncertainty to the maximum uncertainty. This is the fraction of the structure of the message which is determined not by the choice of the sender, but rather by the accepted statistical rules governing the choice of the symbols in question.
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • day of judgment — Judgment Day
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • de-unionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
  • dead and buried — If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future.
  • dead-cat bounce — a temporary recovery in prices following a substantial fall as a result of speculators buying stocks they have already sold rather than as a result of a genuine reversal of the downward trend
  • dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
  • decommunization — the act or process of decommunizing
  • decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
  • decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • definite clause — (logic)   A Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • deindividuation — the loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility
  • deindustrialise — Alternative spelling of deindustrialize.
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