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14-letter words containing m, u, n, d

  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
  • disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
  • disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
  • dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
  • dissolutionism — the beliefs and practices of dissolutionists
  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • drop-down menu — pull-down menu
  • drummond light — calcium light.
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • 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.
  • dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • dumping ground — dump (def 17).
  • dumping-ground — dump (def 17).
  • dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
  • enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
  • 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.
  • excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
  • fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
  • founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • gerald sussman — (person)   (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
  • granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • homeward bound — going home
  • homme du monde — a man of the world; a sophisticate.
  • household name — a person or thing that is very well known
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
  • humidification — to make humid.
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