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16-letter words containing d, o, r, t, u, e

  • 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.
  • 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
  • digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
  • direct discourse — quotation of a speaker in which the speaker's exact words are repeated.
  • direction number — the component of a vector along a given line; any number proportional to the direction cosines of a given line.
  • discourteousness — The state or quality of being discourteous.
  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
  • do-it-yourselfer — an advocate or enthusiast of do-it-yourself
  • doctor's surgery — A doctor's surgery is the same as a doctor's office.
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
  • 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 solitaire — a game of solitaire for two persons, each player usually having a pack and layout but pooling foundations with the opponent.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • 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.
  • drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • dumont d'urville — Jules Sébastien César [zhyl sey-bas-tyan sey-zar] /ʒül seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), 1790–1842, French naval officer: explored South Pacific and Antarctic.
  • 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.
  • electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
  • equidistribution — An equal distribution.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
  • for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
  • four-letter word — any of a number of short words, usually of four letters, considered offensive or vulgar because of their reference to excrement or sex.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
  • fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
  • frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • grounded neutral — Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.
  • group identifier — (operating system)   (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
  • guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
  • high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
  • higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
  • hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
  • household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
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