14-letter words containing a, r, o, u, n, d
- contradictious — inclined to contradict; contentious
- cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage
- counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
- countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
- credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
- disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
- discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- 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
- down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
- 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.
- dracula, count — (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
- edward yourdon — (person) A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.