14-letter words containing d, e, l, i, r, u
- 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).
- liquid protein — an amino acid hydrosol used in weight-reduction programs as a substitute for all or some meals: generally regarded as hazardous to health because of low nutritional content and recommended for controlled use only under medical supervision.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- mare acidalium — (Sea of Venus) an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- 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.
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multielectrode — having or involving several electrodes
- multigrade oil — Multigrade oil is engine or gear oil which works well at both low and high temperatures.
- multiple drill — a drilling machine having a number of vertical spindles for drilling several holes in a piece simultaneously.
- 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.
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- neuroradiology — the branch of radiology dealing with the central nervous system
- non-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- nonprejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- over-fulfilled — to carry out, or bring to realization, as a prophecy or promise.
- overindulgence — excessive indulgence
- overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
- painted turtle — a freshwater turtle, Chrysemys picta, common in the U.S., having bright yellow markings on the head and neck and red markings on the margin of the carapace.
- para-toluidine — a white, flaky, lustrous, very slightly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 9 N, the para isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes, in organic synthesis, and as a reagent in tests for nitrite, lignin, and phloroglucinol.
- parti-coloured — having different colours in different parts; variegated
- particularized — individualized
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- pre-delinquent — (of an account, tax, debt, etc.) past due; overdue.
- pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
- quadrilaterals — Plural form of quadrilateral.
- quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
- quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
- quadruple time — a measure consisting of four beats or pulses with accent on the first and third.
- quadruplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadruplicate.
- quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
- quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- required-cobol — A minimal subset of COBOL developed in 1961. It was later dropped entirely.
- residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.