19-letter words containing l, e, a, d, u
- lucia di lammermoor — an opera (1835) by Gaetano Donizetti, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor.
- malicious falsehood — a lie told by someone who knows the lie is false or knows it will do harm to the person it is concerning
- mary mcleod bethune — Mary McLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil-rights leader.
- mid-autumn festival — a Chinese festival that is held to celebrate the end of the summer harvest, when the crops have been gathered.
- midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
- missing fundamental — a tone, not present in the sound received by the ear, whose pitch is that of the difference between the two tones that are sounded
- mordvinian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
- mount desert island — an island off the coast of E central Maine: summer resort; forms part of Acadia National Park. 14 miles (23 km) long; 8 miles (13 km) wide.
- mousseline de laine — a thin worsted fabric, often having a printed pattern.
- mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
- muhammadan calendar — Muslim calendar.
- mulheim an der ruhr — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, near Essen.
- multidimensionality — The property of being multidimensional.
- multimedia analysis — Multimedia analysis is the consideration of all possible risks relating to pollution and waste management.
- non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- nuclear disarmament — the gradual reduction and eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world
- oak-leaved geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium quercifolium, of southern Africa, having oaklike leaves with purple veins and sparse clusters of purple flowers with darker markings.
- olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
- optical double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- parliament building — structure housing legislative offices
- peroxysulfuric acid — persulfuric acid (def 1).
- perpetual adoration — uninterrupted adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
- perpetual debenture — a bond or debenture that can either never be redeemed or cannot be redeemed on demand
- pleased to meet you — greeting
- police headquarters — building where police are stationed
- preproduction trial — a trial to test a prototype of a product before the product goes into full-scale production
- procedural language — (language) Any programming language in which the programmer specifies an explicit sequences of steps to follow to produce a result (an algorithm). The term should not be confused with "imperative language" - a language that specifies explicit manipulation of state. An example (non-imperative) procedural language is LOGO, which specifies sequences of steps to perform but does not have an internal state. Other procedural languages include Basic, Pascal, C, and Modula-2. Both procedural and imperative languages are in contrast to declarative languages, in which the programmer specifies neither explicit steps nor explicit state manipulation.
- pseudo-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- pseudo-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- pseudo-intellectual — a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
- pseudo-professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- pseudopsychological — of or relating to psychology.
- queensland lungfish — a lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, reaching a length of six feet: occurs in Queensland rivers but introduced elsewhere
- radioactive fallout — the settling to the ground of airborne particles ejected into the atmosphere from the earth by explosions, eruptions, forest fires, etc., especially such settling from nuclear explosions (radioactive fallout) Compare rainout.
- radiopharmaceutical — any of a number of radioactive drugs used diagnostically or therapeutically.
- red-shouldered hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo lineatus, having rufous shoulders.
- reduction potential — (in a galvanic cell) the potential of the electrode at which reduction occurs.
- regular icosahedron — an icosahedron in which each of the faces is an equilateral triangle
- reindustrialization — the revitalization of an industry or industrial society through government aid and tax incentives, modernization of factories and machinery, etc.
- religious education — religion as school subject
- republic of ireland — John, 1838–1918, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman and social reformer, born in Ireland: archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., 1888–1918.
- resplendent quetzal — See under quetzal (def 1).
- reticulated tracery — tracery consisting in large part of a netlike arrangement of repeated geometrical figures.
- reticuloendothelial — pertaining to, resembling, or involving cells of the reticuloendothelial system.
- rural free delivery — former name for rural delivery service. Abbreviation: R.F.D.
- samuel de champlain — Samuel de [sam-yoo-uh l duh;; French sa-my-el duh] /ˈsæm yu əl də;; French sa müˈɛl də/ (Show IPA), 1567–1635, French explorer in the Americas: founder of Quebec; first colonial governor 1633–35.
- san juan de la cruz — San Juan de la [sahn hwahn de lah] /sɑn ʰwɑn dɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA), John of the Cross, Saint.
- sao paulo de luanda — Luanda.
- scale down (or up) — to reduce (or increase), often according to a fixed ratio or proportion
- school of the squad — an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.