15-letter words containing i, o, d, u
- calydonian hunt — the pursuit by Meleager, Atalanta, and others of a savage boar (Calydonian boar) sent by Artemis to lay waste to Calydon.
- cardinal humour — any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
- cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
- cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
- cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
- chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
- chenopodium oil — a colorless or yellowish oil obtained from the seeds and leaves of Mexican tea, used chiefly in medicine as an agent for killing or expelling intestinal worms.
- child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
- children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
- chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
- ciudad trujillo — former name (1936–61) of Santo Domingo.
- ciudad victoria — a city in E central Mexico, capital of Tamaulipas state. Pop: 285 000 (2005 est)
- closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
- cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
- college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
- compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
- compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
- compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- conductiometric — conductometric
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
- counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
- croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
- cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
- crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
- cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
- cut (up) didoes — to behave in mischievous or silly way
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- dartmouth basic — (language) The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
- day in, day out — If you say that something happens day in, day out or day in and day out, you mean that it happens regularly over a long period of time.
- de-unionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
- decommunization — the act or process of decommunizing
- decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
- decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
- deindividuation — the loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility
- deleteriousness — The quality of being deleterious.
- delta reduction — (theory) In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demutualization — Demutualization is a situation in which a mutually owned company such as an insurance company changes into a public company that issues stock.
- deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup