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17-letter words containing l, o, u

  • cumulative voting — a system of voting in which each elector has as many votes as there are candidates in his constituency. Votes may all be cast for one candidate or distributed among several
  • customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • decellularization — (biology, medicine) The loss of cells from tissue.
  • decontextualizing — to remove (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) from a context: decontextualized works of art displayed in museums.
  • defending counsel — a barrister who defends a client in a trial
  • delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
  • denatured alcohol — ethanol rendered unfit for human consumption by the addition of a noxious substance, as in methylated spirits
  • deoxyribonuclease — DNase.
  • desktop publisher — desktop publishing
  • desoxyribonucleic — Alternative spelling of deoxyribonucleic.
  • deucalion's flood — a flood sent by Zeus that wiped out the entire population of the earth, except for Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha
  • dideoxynucleotide — (biochemistry) Any nucleotide formed from a deoxynucleotide by loss of a second hydroxy group from the deoxyribose group.
  • digital audiodisk — a compact disk containing an audio program.
  • digital audiotape — a cassette containing magnetic tape used for high-fidelity digital recording or playback of audio. Abbreviation: DAT.
  • dimethylsulfoxide — DMSO.
  • disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
  • dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
  • disqualifications — Plural form of disqualification.
  • distributed logic — a computer system in which remote terminals and electronic devices, distributed throughout the system, supplement the main computer by doing some of the computing or decision making
  • distribution line — A distribution line is a line or system for distributing power from a transmission system to a consumer that operates at less than 69,000 volts.
  • dobell's solution — a clear, yellowish, aqueous solution of sodium borate, sodium bicarbonate, phenol, and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic and astringent for the nose and throat.
  • double gloucester — a type of smooth orange-red cheese of mild flavour
  • double insulation — Double insulation is insulation that consists of both basic insulation and supplementary insulation.
  • double pair royal — a set of four cards of the same denomination, worth 12 points.
  • double quatrefoil — a charge having the form of a foil with eight leaves, used especially as the cadency mark of a ninth son.
  • double refraction — the separation of a ray of light into two unequally refracted, plane-polarized rays of orthogonal polarizations, occurring in crystals in which the velocity of light rays is not the same in all directions.
  • double track line — a railway line with double track
  • double-ended bolt — a headless bolt threaded at both ends.
  • douglas engelbart — (person)   Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse, Web-board.
  • douglas macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
  • down the plughole — If you say that something has gone down the plughole, you mean that it has failed or has been lost or wasted.
  • drained of colour — colourless
  • drop one's bundle — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
  • due course of law — the regular administration of the law, according to which no citizen may be denied his or her legal rights and all laws must conform to fundamental, accepted legal principles, as the right of the accused to confront his or her accusers.
  • east indian lotus — a southern Asian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, of the water lily family, having fragrant pink or rose flowers.
  • electroconvulsive — Of or relating to the treatment of mental illness by the application of electric shocks to the brain.
  • electrometallurgy — metallurgy involving the use of electric-arc furnaces, electrolysis, and other electrical operations
  • empirical formula — a chemical formula indicating the proportion of each element present in a molecule
  • employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
  • employment equity — a policy or programme designed to reserve jobs for people formerly disadvantaged under apartheid
  • enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
  • equal opportunity — policies that bar discrimination
  • equalization fund — a monetary reserve established by a country to provide funds for maintaining the official exchange rates of its currency by equalizing the buying and selling of foreign exchange.
  • equatorial guinea — a republic of W Africa, consisting of Río Muni on the mainland and the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea, with four smaller islands: ceded by Portugal to Spain in 1778; gained independence in 1968. Official languages: Spanish and French. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: franc. Capital: Malabo. Pop: 704 000 (2013 est). Area: 28 049 sq km (10 830 sq miles)
  • equinoctial point — either of the two points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic
  • ethnomusicologist — A researcher in the field of ethnomusicology.
  • exclusionary rule — a legal rule that evidence obtained illegally, as from a search without a warrant, may not be introduced at trial
  • executive council — (in Australia and New Zealand) a body consisting of ministers of the Crown presided over by the Governor or Governor-General that formally approves Cabinet decisions, etc
  • explicit function — a function whose values may be computed directly, as y = x2 + 1
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