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14-letter words containing d, r, y, n, u

  • a dusty answer — an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply
  • albury-wodonga — a town in SE Australia, in S central New South Wales, on the Murray River: commercial centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 69 880 (2001)
  • all and sundry — All and sundry means everyone.
  • all year round — If something happens all year round, it happens throughout the year.
  • aluminohydride — (inorganic compound) The univalent anion, AlH4-, present in such compounds as lithium aluminium hydride.
  • auditory canal — the narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum.
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
  • beyond measure — If you say that something has changed or that it has affected you beyond measure, you are emphasizing that it has done this to a great extent.
  • bird sanctuary — an area of land in which birds are protected and encouraged to breed
  • boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
  • boundary fence — a fence between properties
  • boundary layer — the layer of fluid closest to the surface of a solid past which the fluid flows: it has a lower rate of flow than the bulk of the fluid because of its adhesion to the solid
  • boundary rider — an employee on a sheep or cattle station whose job is to maintain fences in good repair and to prevent stock from straying
  • boundary value — boundary value analysis
  • boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
  • burying ground — a burial ground.
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
  • compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
  • consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
  • divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.
  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • edward yourdon — (person)   A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
  • emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • 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.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • frequency band — band2 (def 9).
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • indian country — (especially during the U.S. westward migration) any region where one was likely to encounter Indians, especially hostile Indians.
  • induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards

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