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15-letter words containing o, d, e, u

  • controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
  • copper-coloured — of a reddish-brown colour
  • corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
  • cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
  • coude telescope — a telescope in which light from the primary mirror is reflected along the polar axis to additional mirrors, and in which the focus (coudé focus) is independent of the telescope's motion, permitting the use of heavy instruments without disturbing the delicate balance of the telescope.
  • could care less — feel(s) the least possible degree of interest, sympathy, etc.
  • counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • countertendency — an opposite tendency
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • country dweller — a person who lives in the country
  • coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
  • coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
  • course of study — an extended period of organized study, often leading to a qualification
  • court of record — a court which has a permanent record of its proceedings maintained
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
  • culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
  • cut (up) didoes — to behave in mischievous or silly way
  • daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
  • daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
  • dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
  • day of judgment — Judgment Day
  • de-unionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
  • dead-cat bounce — a temporary recovery in prices following a substantial fall as a result of speculators buying stocks they have already sold rather than as a result of a genuine reversal of the downward trend
  • dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
  • decommunization — the act or process of decommunizing
  • decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
  • decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • defence counsel — a barrister or group of barristers responsible for defending someone on trial
  • defunct process — zombie process
  • degree of curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • deindividuation — the loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility
  • delayed neutron — a neutron produced in a nuclear reactor by the breakdown of a fission product and released a short time after neutrons produced in the primary process
  • deleteriousness — The quality of being deleterious.
  • delta reduction — (theory)   In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • demutualization — Demutualization is a situation in which a mutually owned company such as an insurance company changes into a public company that issues stock.
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • departure board — a board in an airport, bus terminal, etc displaying the times and destinations of future departures
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