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15-letter words containing d, u, r, y, e

  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
  • hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
  • ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
  • indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • keyboard plaque — (jargon)   The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • lauric aldehyde — a colorless, extremely alcohol-soluble liquid having a strong floral odor, C 12 H 24 O, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • listed security — a security that is quoted on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and appears in its Official List of Securities
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • medullary canal — the central area of a bone, containing marrow
  • midsummer's day — Midsummer's Day or Midsummer Day is the 24th of June.
  • neutral density — black, white, or a shade of grey; a colourless tone
  • non-documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
  • ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
  • outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
  • perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • 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.
  • pre-delinquency — failure in or neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default: delinquency in payment of dues.
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • pubic directory — [NYU] (also "pube directory" /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) The "pub" (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (software exchange).
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • reynolds number — a dimensionless number, vρl/η, where v is the fluid velocity, ρ the density, η the viscosity and l a dimension of the system. The value of the number indicates the type of fluid flow
  • rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
  • rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
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