14-letter words containing l, o, u, d, n
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
- deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
- delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
- diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
- dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
- diffusion line — a range of clothes made by a top fashion designer for a high-street retailer
- diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
- discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
- disillusioning — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- disillusionise — Alternative spelling of disillusionize.
- disillusionist — to disillusion.
- disillusionize — to disillusion.
- disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
- disquisitional — Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
- dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
- dissolutionism — the beliefs and practices of dissolutionists
- dissolutionist — a person whose aim is dissolution
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- do the needful — to perform a necessary task
- 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 coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
- double density — floppy disk
- double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
- double entente — a double meaning; ambiguity.
- 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 wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
- 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.
- 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.
- dracula, count — (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
- drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.