15-letter words containing d, u, r, n
- polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- post-industrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
- post-production — In film and television, post-production is the work such as editing that takes place after the film has been shot.
- pound one's ear — to sleep
- pre-delinquency — failure in or neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default: delinquency in payment of dues.
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- premier danseur — the leading male dancer in a ballet company.
- printed circuit — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- production line — an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1 (def 29).
- profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
- protonephridium — a tubular, excretory structure in certain invertebrates, as flatworms, rotifers, and some larvae, usually ending internally in flame cells and having an external pore
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pseudoephedrine — a dextrorotatory, isomeric compound, C 1 0 H 1 5 NO, used as a nasal decongestant.
- pseudonephritis — a condition, thought to be benign, in which microscopic amounts of blood and protein are present in the urine, occurring commonly among athletes after strenuous exercise.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- pure and simple — sheer, utter
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
- put a damper on — To put a damper on something means to have an effect on it which stops it being as enjoyable or as successful as it should be.
- quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
- quadripartition — A division into four parts.
- quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- quarter pounder — A quarter pounder is a hamburger that weighs four ounces before it is cooked. Four ounces is a quarter of a pound.
- question period — a period of time set aside each day for members of parliament to question government ministers
- quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
- qurnet es sauda — a mountain in N Lebanon, in the Lebanon Mountains: highest point in Lebanon. 10,131 feet (3090 meters).
- radio announcer — someone who broadcasts or presents radio programmes
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
- radioimmunology — the study of biological substances or processes with the aid of antigens or antibodies labeled with a radioactive isotope.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- re-adjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
- red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
- redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
- redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
- reduction ratio — an expression of the number of times by which an original document has been reduced in a microcopy.
- reed instrument — a wind instrument with a single or double reed, as a saxophone or an oboe.
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- retirement fund — A retirement fund is a special fund which people pay money into so that, when they retire from their job, they will receive money regularly as a pension.
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.