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15-letter words containing d, e, u, t, r

  • eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
  • extrajudicially — Outside of the legal system.
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
  • fort lauderdale — a city in SE Florida: seashore resort.
  • foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
  • freshwater drum — an edible drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, of the fresh waters of North and Central America, sometimes reaching a weight of 60 pounds (27 kg).
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  • gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
  • general studies — a school subject that includes a variety of skills and topics (such as comprehension, and current affairs, which may complement the study of A-levels in specific subjects)
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • gotterdammerung — German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • great barracuda — a large barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, of Atlantic and western Pacific seas.
  • great-grandaunt — an aunt of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
  • griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
  • ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
  • guaranteed bond — a bond issued by a corporation in which payment of the principal, interest, or both is guaranteed by another corporation.
  • guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
  • guru meditation — (operating system)   The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
  • hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
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