14-letter words containing a, e, l, u, r
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- draw-out table — draw table.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- earned surplus — retained earnings.
- electrocautery — Cautery using a needle or other instrument that is electrically heated.
- electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
- engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
- enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
- equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
- excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
- exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
- extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
- eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- fault tolerant — fault tolerance
- fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
- file signature — A magic number.
- first language — mother tongue
- first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
- flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.