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14-letter words containing l, o, u, d, e

  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • 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.
  • double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • 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.
  • draw-out table — draw table.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • 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.
  • duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
  • duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
  • dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
  • dust explosion — an explosion caused by the ignition of an inflammable dust, such as flour or sawdust, in the air
  • dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
  • 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.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
  • flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
  • flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • 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.
  • golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • 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 hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
  • groundlessness — The state or condition of being groundless.
  • groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • 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.
  • hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
  • household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
  • household gods — a god presiding over and protecting the home, especially in the religion of ancient Rome.
  • household name — a person or thing that is very well known
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