15-letter words containing p, o, d, u
- departure board — a board in an airport, bus terminal, etc displaying the times and destinations of future departures
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
- distributorship — a franchise held by a distributor.
- double exposure — the act of exposing the same film, frame, plate, etc., twice.
- double jeopardy — the subjecting of a person to a second trial or punishment for the same offense for which the person has already been tried or punished.
- double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
- 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 stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
- doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
- draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
- draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
- drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
- duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- edmund randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- epsilon squared — (jargon) A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
- expeditiousness — The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
- expulsion order — a legal document ordering someone's expulsion
- fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
- follow-up study — a second study made as a follow-up to an initial study
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
- furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
- globus pallidus — anatomy: part of the brain
- 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.
- groundwood pulp — wood pulp consisting of groundwood that has not been cooked or chemically treated, used for making newsprint and other poorer grades of paper.
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
- hydrosulphurous — relating to or derived from hydrosulphurous acid
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- 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.
- iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
- joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
- juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
- 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."
- 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.
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- lords spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.