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15-letter words containing d, a, n, o

  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
  • unconditionally — not limited by conditions; absolute: an unconditional promise.
  • unconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
  • unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
  • undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
  • under one's hat — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
  • under-education — to educate too little or poorly.
  • undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • underestimation — to estimate at too low a value, rate, or the like.
  • underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
  • undisappointing — not disappointing
  • unearned income — income received from property, as interest, dividends, or the like.
  • unextraordinary — beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established: extraordinary costs.
  • unidiomatically — in a way that is not idiomatic
  • unindoctrinated — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
  • universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
  • unknowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • unleaded petrol — petrol containing a reduced amount of tetraethyl lead
  • unrecommendable — not able to be recommended, supported, or endorsed
  • unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
  • untraditionally — in an untraditional fashion; not traditionally
  • uranium dioxide — a black, crystalline compound, UO 2 , insoluble in water, used in nuclear fuel rods, in ceramics, and pigments.
  • uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
  • us savings bond — A US Savings bond is a long-term bond issued by the US government that is considered low-risk.
  • usman dan fodio — 1754–1817, African mystic and revolutionary leader, who created a Muslim state in Nigeria
  • vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
  • venetian window — Palladian window.
  • victoria island — an island off the coast of N Canada, in the Arctic Ocean. 80,340 sq. mi. (208,081 sq. km).
  • video on demand — (communications)   (VoD) A planned system using video compression to supply programs to viewers when requested, via ISDN or cable.
  • volcano islands — a group of three volcanic islands in the W Pacific, about 1100 km (700 miles) south of Japan: the largest is Iwo Jima, taken by US forces in 1945 and returned to Japan in 1968. Area: about 28 sq km (11 sq miles)
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • voronoi diagram — (mathematics, graphics)   (Or "Voronoi tessellation", "Voronoi decomposition", "Dirichlet tessellation", After Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy) For a set S of points in a Euclidean space, the partition Vor(S) of the plane into the voronoi polygons associated with the members of S, where each polygon is defined by the set of points nearer to some given point in S than to any other point in S. The Voronoi diagram is the dual of the Delaunay triangulation of S.
  • w.h. richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
  • waddesdon manor — a mansion near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire: built (1880–89) in the French style for the Rothschild family: noted for its furnishings and collections of porcelain and paintings
  • wage indexation — the linking of wages to an index representing the cost of living, so that they are automatically adjusted up or down as that rises or falls
  • walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
  • walking wounded — casualties, as of a military conflict, who are wounded but ambulatory.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weekend cottage — a cottage where people spend weekends
  • weekend warrior — a reservist who attends weekend meetings of his or her unit in order to fulfill military obligations.
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • wild and woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
  • wild-and-woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
  • wilderness road — a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.
  • wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
  • windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
  • window cleaning — the task of washing and shining windows
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
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