19-letter words containing o, d, s, u

counterpoise bridge — another name for bascule bridge
country and western — Country and western is the same as country music.
country-and-western — country music.
court correspondent — (in Britain) a journalist who covers stories about the royal family
covered-dish supper — a meal to which guests contribute food, as casseroles.
cudgel one's brains — to think hard about a problem
cultivated mushroom — an edible mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) with a pale cap and stalk: the most common food mushroom
customs declaration — a form declaring the nature and value of goods, etc, for customs purposes
deaf without speech — (usually of a prelingually deaf person) able to utter sounds but not speak
deindustrialisation — Alternative spelling of deindustrialization.
deindustrialization — the decline in importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of a nation or area
deinstitutionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deinstitutionalize.
deoxyribonucleoside — a compound composed of deoxyribose and either a purine or a pyrimidine.
desargues's theorem — the theorem that if two triangles are so related that the lines joining corresponding vertices meet in a point, then the extended corresponding lines of the two triangles meet in three points, all on the same line.
developable surface — a surface that can be flattened onto a plane without stretching or compressing any part of it, as a circular cone.
director of studies — a member of staff at an educational institution who has responsibility for overseeing the curriculum
directory enquiries — Directory enquiries is a service which you can telephone to find out someone's telephone number.
disadvantageousness — The state or quality of being disadvantageous.
disambiguation page — a page on a website that lists various websites or web pages that have or could have the same title. The user is able to select from the list that page, site etc that he or she actually wants
discovery procedure — any rigorous method by the application of which a grammar might be constructed from a corpus of utterances in a language; an algorithm leading from data to a formulation.
discretionary trust — a trust in which the beneficiaries' shares are not fixed in the trust deed but are left to the discretion of other persons, often the trustees
discriminated union — (theory) The discriminated union of two sets A and B is A + B = {(inA, a) | a in A} U {(inB, b)| b in B} where inA and inB are arbitrary tags which specify which summand an element originates from. A type (especially an algebraic data type) might be described as a discriminated union if it is a sum type whose objects consist of a tag to say which part of the union they belong to and a value of the corresponding type.
discussion document — a document that puts forward some ideas or opinions that might form the basis of a discussion of a particular topic
disjunctive pronoun — an inflection of pronouns in some languages that is used alone or after a preposition, such as moi in French
distillation column — a type of still fitted with interior baffles, used for fractional distillation. Compare still2 (def 1).
distribution system — The distribution system is the part of an electric system after the transmission system that is dedicated to delivering electric energy to an end user.
do not disturb sign — A do not disturb sign is a sign that a guest in a hotel hangs outside their room to tell other people not to knock the door or enter.
dollard-des-ormeaux — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
dose-response curve — a curve plotting the relationship between the dose of a drug administered and its pharmacological effect.
double yellow lines — parallel yellow lines painted down the centre of a roadway to indicate that overtaking is not permitted in either direction
double-density disk — a disk with more than the normal capacity for storage
dry-bulk cargo ship — a ship that carries an unpackaged dry cargo such as coal or grain; bulk carrier
east dunbartonshire — a council area of central Scotland to the N of Glasgow: part of Strathclyde region from 1975 until 1996: mainly agricultural and residential. Administrative centre: Kirkintilloch. Pop: 106 970 (2003 est). Area: 172 sq km (66 sq miles)
ebola virus disease — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
educational adviser — a person who provides advice and training to teachers about teaching methods and educational policies
end-to-end solution — (jargon) (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution.
endowment assurance — a form of life insurance that provides for the payment of a specified sum directly to the policyholder at a designated date or to his beneficiary should he die before this date
endowment insurance — Endowment insurance is a type of life insurance that pays a particular sum directly to the policyholder at a stated date, or to a beneficiary if the policyholder dies before this date.
factitious disorder — any of various syndromes, as Münchausen syndrome, characterized by physical or psychological symptoms intentionally produced by a person and under voluntary control.
feather-duster worm — any tube-dwelling polychaete worm of the families Sabellidae and Serpulidae, the numerous species having a crown of feathery tentacles used in feeding and respiration.
financial ombudsman — any of five British ombudsmen: the Banking Ombudsman, set up in 1986 to investigate complaints from bank customers; the Building Society Ombudsman, set up in 1987 to investigate complaints from building society customers; the Insurance Ombudsman, set up in 1981 to investigate complaints by policyholders (since 1988 this ombudsman has also operated a Unit Trust Ombudsman scheme); the Investment Ombudsman set up in 1989 to investigate complaints by investors (the Personal Investment Authority Ombudsman is responsible for investigating complaints by personal investors); and the Pensions Ombudsman, set up in 1993 to investigate complaints regarding pension schemes
fluophosphoric acid — fluorophosphoric acid.
fluoride toothpaste — toothpaste containing a small amount of fluoride as protection against tooth decay
foundation subjects — the subjects studied as part of the National Curriculum, including the compulsory core subjects
free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
functional database — (database, language) A database which uses a functional language as its query language. Databases would seem to be an inappropriate application for functional languages since, a purely functional language would have to return a new copy of the entire database every time (part of) it was updated. To be practically scalable, the update mechanism must clearly be destructive rather than functional; however it is quite feasible for the query language to be purely functional so long as the database is considered as an argument. One approach to the update problem would use a monad to encapsulate database access and ensure it was single threaded. Alternative approaches have been suggested by Trinder, who suggests non-destructive updating with shared data structures, and Sutton who uses a variant of a Phil Wadler's linear type system. There are two main classes of functional database languages. The first is based upon Backus' FP language, of which FQL is probably the best known example. Adaplan is a more recent language which falls into this category. More recently, people have been working on languages which are syntactically very similar to modern functional programming languages, but which also provide all of the features of a database language, e.g. bulk data structures which can be incrementally updated, type systems which can be incrementally updated, and all data persisting in a database. Examples are PFL [Poulovassilis&Small, VLDB-91], and Machiavelli [Ohori et al, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 1998].
get one's dander up — to become or to cause someone to become annoyed or angry
gloucester old spot — a hardy rare breed of pig, white with a few black markings, that originally lived off windfalls in orchards in the Severn valley
go down the tube(s) — If a business, economy, or institution goes down the tubes or goes down the tube, it fails or collapses completely.
go round in circles — to engage in energetic but fruitless activity

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