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

  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • earned surplus — retained earnings.
  • 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
  • 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
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • 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.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • 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
  • four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
  • 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
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • 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.
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
  • 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.
  • granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
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