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16-letter words containing a, t, u, e, n

  • demolition squad — a group of demolishers
  • demutualizations — Plural form of demutualization.
  • denaturalization — The act or process of denaturalizing, of changing or destroying the quality (nature) of a thing.
  • dental insurance — Dental insurance is insurance that pays for treatment by a dentist.
  • denuclearization — The act or process of denuclearizing.
  • departure lounge — In an airport, the departure lounge is the place where passengers wait before they get onto their plane.
  • departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
  • dependent clause — a clause that cannot function syntactically as a complete sentence by itself but has a nominal, adjectival, or adverbial function within a larger sentence; subordinate clause (Ex.: She will visit us if she can.)
  • depleted uranium — Depleted uranium is a type of uranium that is used in some bombs.
  • depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
  • deuterocanonical — of or constituting a second or subsequent canon; specif., designating certain Biblical books accepted as canonical in the Roman Catholic Church, but held by Protestants to be apocryphal
  • discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disputatiousness — The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.
  • disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
  • distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
  • document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
  • driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • duplex apartment — an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
  • dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • eager evaluation — Any evaluation strategy where evaluation of some or all function arguments is started before their value is required. A typical example is call-by-value, where all arguments are passed evaluated. The opposite of eager evaluation is call-by-need where evaluation of an argument is only started when it is required. The term "speculative evaluation" is very close in meaning to eager evaluation but is applied mostly to parallel architectures whereas eager evaluation is used of both sequential and parallel evaluators. Eager evaluation does not specify exactly when argument evaluation takes place - it might be done fully speculatively (all redexes in the program reduced in parallel) or may be done by the caller just before the function is entered. The term "eager evaluation" was invented by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker <[email protected]> and used in their paper ["The Incremental Garbage Collection of Processes", Sigplan Notices, Aug 1977. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Futures.html]. It was named after their "eager beaver" evaluator. See also conservative evaluation, lenient evaluation, strict evaluation.
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • eastern european — relating to, situated in or coming from Eastern Europe
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • electric furnace — any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
  • electron capture — the transformation of an atomic nucleus in which an electron from the atom is spontaneously absorbed into the nucleus. A proton is changed into a neutron, thereby reducing the atomic number by 1. A neutrino is emitted. The process may be detected by the consequent emission of the characteristic X-rays of the resultant element
  • elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
  • emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
  • enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
  • equation of time — the difference between apparent solar time and mean solar time, being at a maximum in February (over 14 minutes) and November (over 16 minutes)
  • equational logic — (logic)   First-order equational logic consists of quantifier-free terms of ordinary first-order logic, with equality as the only predicate symbol. The model theory of this logic was developed into Universal algebra by Birkhoff et al. [Birkhoff, Gratzer, Cohn]. It was later made into a branch of category theory by Lawvere ("algebraic theories").
  • escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
  • evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
  • exchange student — sb who studies abroad
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • exhaust analysis — An exhaust analysis is an examination of the constituents of an engine's gases, vapors, and particulates.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
  • external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
  • external student — a student studying a university subject extramurally
  • fade-in fade-out — an optical effect in which a shot appears gradually out of darkness and then gradually disappears
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