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14-letter words containing n, o, t, u, r

  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
  • drummond light — calcium light.
  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • 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.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • eastern europe — geography: Russia, Baltic Republics, etc.
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • 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.
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
  • extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
  • extraneousness — The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic.
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
  • fault tolerant — fault tolerance
  • fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
  • fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • 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.
  • front of house — restaurant
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
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