14-letter words containing d, u, r, n, e
- 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
- equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
- 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.
- evergreen fund — a fund that provides capital for new companies and makes regular injections of capital to support their development
- exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
- feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
- founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
- founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
- garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- gender studies — subject: male and female roles
- gender-neutral — noting or relating to a word or phrase that does not refer to one gender only: Firefighter and flight attendant are gender-neutral terms.
- gerald sussman — (person) (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
- gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
- grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
- granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundlessness — The state or condition of being groundless.
- groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
- groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
- groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
- group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
- guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
- guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.