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15-letter words containing o, s, u, a

  • 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)
  • cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
  • customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • 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.
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
  • decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
  • desexualization — The act or process of desexualizing.
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
  • disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
  • disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • discontinuation — a breach or interruption of continuity or unity: Progress was delayed by repeated discontinuations of work.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • discountenanced — Simple past tense and past participle of discountenance.
  • discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
  • disquisitionary — of or relating to a disquisition
  • distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
  • dithionous acid — an unstable dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of dithionite salts. It is a powerful reducing agent. Formula: H2S2O4
  • do an injustice — If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you.
  • domain calculus — (database)   A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
  • domain squatter — (web)   An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
  • dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
  • double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
  • double-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) overlapping sufficiently in front to allow for two rows of buttons.
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • dual admissions — a system whereby students attaining less good marks than what is required are offered a place provided they successfully complete another course first to improve some aspect of their work
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • efficaciousness — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
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