14-letter words containing l, u, n, a, r
- 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
- 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.
- dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
- drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
- earned surplus — retained earnings.
- electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
- engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
- enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
- equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
- 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.
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
- excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
- eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
- fault tolerant — fault tolerance
- fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- file signature — A magic number.
- first language — mother tongue
- fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gender-neutral — noting or relating to a word or phrase that does not refer to one gender only: Firefighter and flight attendant are gender-neutral terms.
- general public — people in general
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- gerald sussman — (person) (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
- glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- 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.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
- guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.