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16-letter words containing d, u, r

  • hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
  • household chores — tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home
  • household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
  • hummingbird moth — hawk moth.
  • hundred-year-old — of one hundred years of age
  • hybrid perpetual — a type of cultivated rose bred from varieties having vigorous growth and more or less recurrent bloom.
  • hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
  • hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
  • hydraulic radius — the ratio of the cross-sectional area to the perimeter of a pipe, outlet, or the like, through which a fluid is flowing.
  • hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
  • hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
  • hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • immunomodulatory — (medical) Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions.
  • immunosuppressed — the inhibition of the normal immune response because of disease, the administration of drugs, or surgery.
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
  • inauguration day — the day on which the president of the United States is inaugurated, being January 20 of every year following a year whose number is divisible by four. Prior to the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified February 6, 1933), it was March 4.
  • inboard-outboard — Also, outdrive, stern-drive. (of a motorboat) having an inboard engine connected to a maneuverable outboard drive-shaft unit.
  • indian liquorice — a woody leguminous climbing plant, Abrus precatorius, native to tropical Asia and naturalized elsewhere, having scarlet black-spotted poisonous seeds, used as beads, and roots used as a substitute for liquorice
  • indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
  • induction course — training for new job
  • induction stroke — The induction stroke is the stroke of the piston in an internal combustion engine in which working fluid is drawn into the cylinder.
  • industrial union — a labor union composed of workers in various trades and crafts within one industry.
  • industrial waste — waste materials left over from a manufacturing process in industrial buildings such as factories and mines
  • infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
  • internal auditor — a person who carries out an internal audit
  • intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
  • josquin des prés — Josquin [zhuhs-kan;; French zhaws-kan] /ˈʒʌs kæn;; French ʒɔsˈkɛ̃/ (Show IPA), c1445–1521, Flemish composer.
  • josquin des prez — 1440?-1521; Fr. composer
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • jude the obscure — a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy.
  • judicial inquiry — a formal legal investigation conducted into a matter of public concern by a judge, appointed by the government
  • jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
  • keep under wraps — not reveal
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
  • la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
  • labrador current — a cold ocean current flowing southwards off the coast of Labrador and meeting the warm Gulf Stream, causing dense fogs off the coast of Newfoundland
  • ladies auxiliary — an association whose members are usually the wives of members of an association with which it is affiliated.
  • lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
  • latissimus dorsi — a broad, flat muscle on each side of the midback, the action of which draws the arm backward and downward and rotates the front of the arm toward the body.
  • lauderdale lakes — a city in SE Florida: suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
  • laurel and hardy — a team of US film comedians, Stan Laurel, 1890–1965, born in Britain, the thin one, and his partner, Oliver Hardy, 1892–1957, the fat one
  • laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
  • lenticular cloud — a very smooth, round or oval, lens-shaped cloud that is often seen, singly or stacked in groups, near a mountain ridge.
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