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14-letter words containing o, l, d, r, u

  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • distrustful of — suspicious of; having no confidence in
  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • double bedroom — a large bedroom
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double dresser — a dresser having two long drawers across its width for most of its height.
  • double dribble — an infraction, resulting in loss of possession of the ball, occurring either when a player uses both hands simultaneously when dribbling or when a player interrupts a dribble by holding the ball momentarily in one or both hands.
  • double drummer — a type of cicada
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • dracula, count — (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
  • draw-out table — draw table.
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • drummond light — calcium light.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
  • duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
  • dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
  • flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
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