15-letter words containing i, n, d, u, s, c
- dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- elections judge — someone who oversees an election
- exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
- fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
- fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
- food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- individualistic — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- injudiciousness — The state or condition of being injudicious.
- islands council — (in Scotland since 1975) any of the three divisions (Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles) into which the Scottish islands are divided for purposes of local government
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- medical student — trainee doctor
- miscommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscommunicate.
- mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
- multidiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- muslim calendar — the lunar calendar used by Muslims and reckoned from a.d. 622: the calendar year consists of 354 days and contains 12 months: Moharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu ʾl-Qaʿda, and Dhu ʾl-hijjah. In leap years the month Dhu ʾl-hijjah contains one extra day.
- narcotics squad — a department of the police which investigates crimes concerning illegal drugs
- non-disjunction — the failure of chromosomes to separate and segregate into daughter cells at division.
- nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
- post-production — In film and television, post-production is the work such as editing that takes place after the film has been shot.
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pseudoscientist — a person who practises pseudoscience or who falsely assumes the title of scientist
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
- rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
- self-inductance — inductance inducing an electromotive force in the same circuit in which the motivating change of current occurs, equal to the number of flux linkages per unit of current.
- self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
- self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.