14-letter words containing a, l, u, r, e, d
- hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
- hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
- idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- industrialised — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
- industrialized — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
- industrializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of industrialize.
- inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
- internal audit — an audit conducted by company accountants on a regular basis (distinguished from independent audit).
- intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
- jerusalem date — butterfly flower.
- juxtamedullary — (anatomy) next to the edge of the medulla (of the kidney).
- kidney failure — loss of renal function
- l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
- laetare sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent when the introit begins with “ Laetare Jerusalem ” (Rejoice ye, Jerusalem).
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
- league leaders — the team at the top of a league
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- liquid measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring liquid commodities, as milk or oil. English system: 4 gills = 1 pint; 2 pints = 1 quart; 4 quarts = 1 gallon. Metric system: 1000 milliliters = 1 liter; 1000 liters = 1 kiloliter (= 1 cubic meter).
- long underwear — a close-fitting, usually knitted undergarment with legs reaching to the ankles, as a union suit, worn as protection against the cold.
- loud and clear — loudly and clearly
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- malodorousness — The state or condition of being malodorous.
- mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
- mare acidalium — (Sea of Venus) an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- marmalade plum — sapote.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- maturity yield — Finance. the rate of return on a bond expressed as a percentage that accounts for the difference between the interest earned based on current market value and that earned if the bond is held to maturity.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multigrade oil — Multigrade oil is engine or gear oil which works well at both low and high temperatures.
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- nacreous cloud — a rarely seen, luminous, iridescent cloud shaped like a cirrus or altocumulus, approximately 15 miles (24 km) above the earth, and of unknown composition.
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- natural gender — gender based on the sex or, for neuter, the lack of sex of the referent of a noun, as English girl (feminine) is referred to by the feminine pronoun she, boy (masculine) by the masculine pronoun he, and table (neuter) by the neuter pronoun it.
- neuromodulator — any of various substances, as certain hormones and amino acids, that influence the function of neurons but do not act as neurotransmitters.
- neuroradiology — the branch of radiology dealing with the central nervous system
- neutral ground — a median strip on a highway or boulevard, especially one planted with grass.
- newfoundlander — a native or inhabitant of Newfoundland.
- non-fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.