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15-letter words containing o, u, t, d, i, n

  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • fluoridationist — One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
  • formation fluid — Formation fluid is fluid in the pores (=tiny holes) of a rock.
  • foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • functional food — a food containing additives which provide extra nutritional value
  • functional load — the relative frequency of occurrence of words that are differentiated in one and the same position by only one distinctive feature. In English, the opposition of voiced and voiceless th has a low functional load being used only to distinguish such pairs as ether and either, or wreath and wreathe.
  • furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
  • growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
  • guru meditation — (operating system)   The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
  • human condition — mortality
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • i don't suppose — You can say 'I don't suppose' as a way of introducing a polite request.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
  • immunomodulator — a substance that affects the functioning of the immune system
  • in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • in-and-out bond — a stonework or brickwork bond having headers and stretchers alternating vertically.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
  • induction motor — a type of electric motor in which alternating current from a power source is fed through a primary winding and induces a current in a secondary winding, with the parts arranged so that the resulting magnetic field causes a movable rotor to rotate with respect to a fixed stator.
  • industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
  • 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
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • joint-household — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
  • loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
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