14-letter words containing e, u
- double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
- drag your feet — dawdle
- drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- draw-out table — draw table.
- droit de suite — a right recognized by the legislation of several member countries of the European Union whereby an artist, or his or her heirs, is entitled to a share of the price of a work of art if it is resold during the artist's lifetime or for 70 years after his or her death
- drop-down menu — pull-down menu
- drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
- drum majorette — a girl or woman who leads a marching band or drum corps.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
- duck and drake — ducks and drakes (def 1).
- duckfoot quote — chevron-shaped quotation mark
- ductless gland — endocrine gland.
- dulce de leche — milk-based caramel sauce or candy
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- dunning letter — a letter pressing someone for payment
- duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
- duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
- duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
- dust and ashes — something that is very disappointing
- dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
- dust explosion — an explosion caused by the ignition of an inflammable dust, such as flour or sawdust, in the air
- dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- earned surplus — retained earnings.
- east st. louis — a city in SW Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.
- east-southeast — the point on a compass midway between east and southeast.
- eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
- eastern europe — geography: Russia, Baltic Republics, etc.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- eau de cologne — cologne.