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

  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • internucleotide — occurring or existing between nucleotides
  • jaques-dalcroze — Émile [French ey-meel] /French eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1865–1950, Swiss composer and teacher: created eurythmics.
  • keyboard plaque — (jargon)   The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • lord lieutenant — British. the title of various high officials holding authority deputed from a sovereign.
  • lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • louis d'orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
  • modulo operator — (mathematics)   (mod) The operator that returns the remainder after integer division of its first argument by its second. Written as "%" in C and some other languages. Where the second argument is a power of two, the result can be calculated much more quickly using bitwise and with the appropriate bit-mask.
  • molecular cloud — a cool dense interstellar region composed of a wide variety of molecules, mainly hydrogen, plus some dust, in which stars are forming
  • moral turpitude — conduct that is regarded as immoral.
  • murder will out — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
  • neuroectodermal — Of or pertaining to the neuroectoderm.
  • nevado del ruiz — a volcano in W central Colombia, in the Andes: eruption 1985. 17,720 feet (5401 meters).
  • nonmatriculated — not matriculated, not enrolled in an institution, esp a college or university
  • nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
  • nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
  • ordered n-tuple — a set of n objects or quantities, where n is an integer, especially such a set arranged in a specified order (ordered n-tuple)
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • ortho-toluidine — Chemistry. a light-yellow, very slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 9 N, the ortho isomer of toluidine: used in the manufacture of dyes, saccharin, and other organic compounds, and in textile printing processes.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
  • over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
  • polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
  • production line — an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1 (def 29).
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
  • pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • religious order — monks: monastery
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