15-letter words containing l, e, a, d, u
- castellated nut — a nut that has indentations similar to battlements
- central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
- charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
- chorale prelude — a composition for organ using a chorale as a cantus firmus or as the basis for variations
- chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
- church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
- church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
- circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
- claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
- closed fracture — simple fracture.
- clouded leopard — a feline, Neofelis nebulosa, of SE Asia and Indonesia with a yellowish-brown coat marked with darker spots and blotches
- could care less — feel(s) the least possible degree of interest, sympathy, etc.
- counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
- cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
- decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
- decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
- decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
- decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
- deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- definite clause — (logic) A Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- deindustrialise — Alternative spelling of deindustrialize.
- deindustrialize — to reduce the importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of (a nation or area)
- delayed neutron — a neutron produced in a nuclear reactor by the breakdown of a fission product and released a short time after neutrons produced in the primary process
- 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.
- desexualization — The act or process of desexualizing.
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
- dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- diallyl sulfide — allyl sulfide.
- diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- distastefulness — The state or quality of being distasteful or objectionable; causing averseness; unpleasantness.
- distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- divide and rule — You use divide and rule to refer to a policy which is intended to keep someone in a position of power by causing disagreements between people who might otherwise unite against them.
- documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
- dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
- double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- double jeopardy — the subjecting of a person to a second trial or punishment for the same offense for which the person has already been tried or punished.
- double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here