15-letter words containing e, r, u, d
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- horned cucumber — a tropical African plant, Cucumis metuliferus, having fruit with spiky, orange skin and jellylike pulp that tastes like cucumbers.
- horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
- 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
- humpback bridge — arched bridge
- hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
- hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- 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
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
- incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- 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.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
- internucleotide — occurring or existing between nucleotides
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- island universe — an external galaxy.
- ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
- jaques-dalcroze — Émile [French ey-meel] /French eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1865–1950, Swiss composer and teacher: created eurythmics.
- joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- juan de la cruz — San [sahn] /sɑn/ (Show IPA), John of the Cross, Saint.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- judicial murder — the unjustified execution of the death penalty
- judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
- julian calendar — the calendar established by Julius Caesar in 46 b.c., fixing the length of the year at 365 days and at 366 days every fourth year. There are 12 months of 30 or 31 days, except for February (which has 28 days with the exception of every fourth year, or leap year, when it has 29 days).
- jupiter's-beard — red valerian.
- jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
- 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."
- knuckle-dusters — brass knuckles.
- lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
- lantern gurnard — a type of gurnard