14-letter words containing l, a, u, n, d, e
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
- disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
- diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
- double bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
- double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- 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.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- ductless gland — endocrine gland.
- duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
- earned surplus — retained earnings.
- eau de cologne — cologne.
- educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- 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.
- 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).
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
- fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
- fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gender-neutral — noting or relating to a word or phrase that does not refer to one gender only: Firefighter and flight attendant are gender-neutral terms.
- gerald sussman — (person) (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
- guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
- harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
- heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
- household name — a person or thing that is very well known