15-letter words containing g, r, u, d, e
- off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
- religious order — monks: monastery
- robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- 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.
- rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
- rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- routeing domain — (networking) (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
- santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
- scrounge around — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
- secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
- securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
- shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
- shoulder girdle — pectoral girdle (def 2).
- shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
- sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
- soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
- sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
- staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
- suppressor grid — an electrode placed between the screen grid and anode of a valve. Its negative potential, relative to both screen and anode, prevents secondary electrons from the anode reaching the screen
- surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
- svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
- target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
- the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
- the underground — an electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels
- the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
- thought reading — mind reading.
- to good purpose — with a good result or effect; advantageously
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
- turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
- unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
- uncomprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
- underfulfilling — falling short of satisfactory
- underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
- understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- undeservingness — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
- untransmigrated — not transmigrated; not transferred or caused to be transferred