14-letter words containing o, n, r, u
- dracula, count — (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
- drop-down menu — pull-down menu
- drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
- drummond light — calcium light.
- dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duck on a rock — a children's game in which one player stands guard over a stone on a rock while the other players attempt to knock it off by throwing another stone in turn: if the thrower is tagged by the guard while trying to recover the stone, the two players then change positions.
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- dumping ground — dump (def 17).
- dumping-ground — dump (def 17).
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
- dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- eastern europe — geography: Russia, Baltic Republics, etc.
- edward yourdon — (person) A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
- electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
- electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
- equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
- erogenous zone — a part of the body that is sensitive to sexual stimulation
- escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- 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.
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- european union — political union of European countries
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
- extraneousness — The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic.
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous