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14-letter words containing d, u, s, t, i

  • oxidoreductase — any of a class of enzymes that act as a catalyst, some of them conjointly, causing the oxidation and reduction of compounds.
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
  • picture spread — an act or instance of spreading: With a spread of her arms the actress acknowledged the applause.
  • police custody — If somebody or something is in police custody, they are kept somewhere secure, under the supervision of police officers, for example in a police station.
  • position audit — a systematic assessment of the current strengths and weaknesses of an organization as a prerequisite for future strategic planning
  • postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
  • postindustrial — 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.
  • postproduction — (in motion pictures, recording, etc.) the technical processes, as cutting, editing, and post-synchronization, necessary to ready a filmed or recorded work for sale or exhibition.
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • pseudaesthesia — imaginary sensation, like that of an amputated limb
  • pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
  • pseudosolution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
  • pull-down list — (operating system)   (Or "drop-down list") A graphical user interface component that allows the user to choose one (or sometimes more than one) item from a list. The current choice is visible in a small rectangle and when the user clicks on it, a list of items is revealed below it. The user can then click on one of these to make it the current choice and the list disappears. In some cases, by holding down a modifier key such as Ctrl when clicking, the selection is added to (or removed from) the set of current choices rather than replacing it.
  • push down list — (programming)   (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
  • put into words — express in language
  • quadrilaterals — Plural form of quadrilateral.
  • quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
  • quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • radioacoustics — the science and technology of the production, transmission, and reproduction of sounds carried by radio waves.
  • radiostrontium — strontium 90.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • redistributive — favoring, supporting, or practicing income redistribution: the redistributive effects of public spending.
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • res adjudicata — res judicata.
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
  • rural district — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and Northern Ireland from 1898 to 1973) a rural division of a county
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • semi-automated — partially automated.
  • semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
  • sesquipedality — given to using long words.
  • shit disturber — a person who enjoys causing controversy or upsetting people
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