14-letter words containing d, u, c
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- dracula, count — (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
- dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
- drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
- drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
- drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
- drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- duck and drake — ducks and drakes (def 1).
- duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
- duckfoot quote — chevron-shaped quotation mark
- ductless gland — endocrine gland.
- dulce de leche — milk-based caramel sauce or candy
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
- duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
- dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
- dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
- dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
- dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- eau de cologne — cologne.
- educated guess — informed estimate
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- endurance race — long-distance motor sport competition
- endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
- enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
- equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- 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.
- exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
- exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- expected value — the sum or integral of all possible values of a random variable, or any given function of it, multiplied by the respective probabilities of the values of the variable. Symbol: E(X). E(X) is the mean of the distribution; E(X–c) = E(X)–c where c is a constant
- fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
- fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
- fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.