14-letter words containing d, u, a, t
- autoradiograph — a photograph showing the distribution of a radioactive substance in a specimen. The photographic plate is exposed by radiation from the specimen
- autoresponders — Plural form of autoresponder.
- autotetraploid — an individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of four copies of a single genome due to doubling of an ancestral chromosome complement
- barium-hydrate — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
- basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
- bastard turtle — ridley (def 1).
- bastard-turtle — ridley (def 1).
- bermuda cutter — a marconi-rigged cutter.
- bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
- beta reduction — [lambda-calculus] The application of a lambda abstraction to an argument expression. A copy of the body of the lambda abstraction is made and occurrences of the bound variable being replaced by the argument. E.g. (\ x . x+1) 4 --> 4+1 Beta reduction is the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus. The opposite of beta reduction is beta abstraction. These are the two kinds of beta conversion. See also name capture.
- beyond a doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- bib and tucker — an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker)
- bird sanctuary — an area of land in which birds are protected and encouraged to breed
- blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- blood-and-guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- body beautiful — a beautiful body
- boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
- bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
- broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
- bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
- budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- budgetary year — the financial year a budget is drawn up for
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
- butyl aldehyde — butyraldehyde
- calculatedness — the state of being calculated
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
- cardiac output — blood volume in liters pumped by the left ventricle of the heart per minute.
- cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
- cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
- chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
- circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
- circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- 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 fault — a series of closely spaced faults
- computer-aided — done or improved by computer
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
- conduplication — (of a leaf in the bud) folded lengthwise with the upper face of the blade within.
- conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- contextualized — Simple past tense and past participle of contextualize.
- contradictious — inclined to contradict; contentious
- cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage