14-letter words containing i, n, d, u
- double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
- double-jointed — (of particular people or animals) having unusually flexible joints that can bend in unusual ways or to abnormally great extent.
- 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.
- dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
- drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
- drilling fluid — a fluid used in the process of drilling bore holes and oil wells, for instance drilling mud, water, and compressed air amongst others
- drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
- drummond light — calcium light.
- drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- 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.
- dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
- dumping ground — dump (def 17).
- dumping-ground — dump (def 17).
- 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
- dunkirk spirit — fortitude and stoicism in a demanding or dangerous situation
- dunning letter — a letter pressing someone for payment
- duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
- 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 colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
- dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
- equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
- fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
- fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
- flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
- food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food