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

  • redundancy pay — severance pay.
  • refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
  • reintroduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
  • ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
  • ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
  • ridiculousness — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
  • round the bend — to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
  • rounding error — an error introduced into a computation by the need to perform rounding
  • rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
  • saddam hussein — Also, Hosein, Husain. (al-Husayn) a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
  • safe and sound — unharmed and well
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
  • second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • selenious acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous powder, H 2 SeO 3 , used chiefly as a reagent.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-surrender — the surrender or yielding up of oneself, one's will, affections, etc., as to another person, an influence, or a cause.
  • semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
  • serious-minded — characterized by seriousness of intention, purpose, thought, etc.; earnest.
  • sesquipedalian — given to using long words.
  • shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • size reduction — Size reduction is a process in which the particle size of a solid is made smaller.
  • slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
  • sld resolution — (logic, programming)   (Selected, Linear, Definite) Linear resolution with a selection function for definite sentences. A definite sentence has exactly one positive literal in each clause and this literal is selected to be resolved upon, i.e. replaced in the goal clause by the conjunction of negative literals which form the body of the clause.
  • slide mountain — a mountain in SE New York: highest peak of the Catskill Mountains. 4204 feet (1280 meters).
  • smooth-tongued — fluent or convincing in speech; glib.
  • sock suspender — garter (def 1).
  • sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
  • sodium nitrate — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, NaNO 3 , that occurs naturally as soda niter: used in fertilizers, explosives, and glass, and as a color fixative in processed meats.
  • sodium nitrite — Chemistry. a yellowish or white crystalline compound, NaNO 2 , soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol and ether: used in the manufacture of dyes and as a color fixative.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • sound engineer — A sound engineer is a person who works in a recording studio or for a radio or television company, and whose job it is to alter and balance the levels of different sounds as they are recorded.
  • sound pressure — Also called excess sound pressure, instantaneous sound pressure. the difference between the pressure at a point in a medium through which a sound wave is passing and the static pressure of the medium at that point.
  • south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • south tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 151 700 (2003 est). Area: 64 sq km (25 sq miles)
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