16-letter words containing d, r, u, s, e
- consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
- cottage industry — A cottage industry is a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
- counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
- couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy
- crash test dummy — a dummy used in crash tests
- crossword puzzle — a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern
- crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
- cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
- curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
- deboursification — (jargon) Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
- decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- deferred success — (in Britain) a euphemism suggested as an alternative to ‘failure’, in order not to stigmatize pupils who have not achieved a pass in a particular subject
- deindustrialised — Simple past tense and past participle of deindustrialise.
- deindustrialized — Simple past tense and past participle of deindustrialize.
- delirium tremens — a severe psychotic condition occurring in some persons with chronic alcoholism, characterized by delirium, tremor, anxiety, and vivid hallucinations
- demerara (sugar) — a coarse, light-brown sugar
- dental insurance — Dental insurance is insurance that pays for treatment by a dentist.
- departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
- depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
- deputy secretary — the Deputy Secretary of State or Defense etc
- designer stubble — (on a man) facial hair that is carefully trimmed to give what is thought to be an attractive rugged slightly unshaven look
- destructibleness — The quality of being destructible.
- diesel-hydraulic — a locomotive driven by a diesel engine through hydraulic transmission and torque converters
- dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
- direct discourse — quotation of a speaker in which the speaker's exact words are repeated.
- 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.
- disorderly house — a house of prostitution; brothel.
- disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
- distributed term — a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked
- distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
- do oneself proud — to do extremely well
- 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.
- 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 precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
- 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.
- drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
- drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- ducks and drakes — Also, duck and drake. a pastime in which flat stones or shells are thrown across water so as to skip over the surface several times before sinking.
- dunderheadedness — Stupidity.
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.