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14-letter words containing a, l, i, u, n, d

  • dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
  • 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.
  • dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
  • drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • 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.
  • field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
  • foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
  • hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indian buffalo — a member of the cattle tribe, Bubalus bubalis, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals
  • individualised — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
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