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14-letter words containing d, i, r, u

  • drummond light — calcium light.
  • drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • dumping ground — dump (def 17).
  • dumping-ground — dump (def 17).
  • 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
  • dunkirk spirit — fortitude and stoicism in a demanding or dangerous situation
  • dunning letter — a letter pressing someone for payment
  • duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
  • empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
  • feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
  • feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
  • fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
  • four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • gender studies — subject: male and female roles
  • gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
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