17-letter words containing r, u, d, e, l
- decellularization — (biology, medicine) The loss of cells from tissue.
- deindustrializing — Present participle of deindustrialize.
- delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
- denatured alcohol — ethanol rendered unfit for human consumption by the addition of a noxious substance, as in methylated spirits
- deoxyribonuclease — DNase.
- desktop publisher — desktop publishing
- desoxyribonucleic — Alternative spelling of deoxyribonucleic.
- digital signature — an encrypted digital code appended to an electronic document to verify that it was created by a known source and has not been altered.
- dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
- disrespectfulness — The state or quality of being disrespectful; disrespect; disregard.
- distributed logic — a computer system in which remote terminals and electronic devices, distributed throughout the system, supplement the main computer by doing some of the computing or decision making
- distribution line — A distribution line is a line or system for distributing power from a transmission system to a consumer that operates at less than 69,000 volts.
- double gloucester — a type of smooth orange-red cheese of mild flavour
- double pair royal — a set of four cards of the same denomination, worth 12 points.
- double quatrefoil — a charge having the form of a foil with eight leaves, used especially as the cadency mark of a ninth son.
- double refraction — the separation of a ray of light into two unequally refracted, plane-polarized rays of orthogonal polarizations, occurring in crystals in which the velocity of light rays is not the same in all directions.
- double track line — a railway line with double track
- douglas engelbart — (person) Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse, Web-board.
- drained of colour — colourless
- drive up the wall — to cause to become crazy or furious
- drop one's bundle — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
- duality principle — the principle that a mathematical duality exists under certain conditions.
- due course of law — the regular administration of the law, according to which no citizen may be denied his or her legal rights and all laws must conform to fundamental, accepted legal principles, as the right of the accused to confront his or her accusers.
- dull as dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- dwarf huckleberry — tangleberry.
- false bread-fruit — ceriman.
- feint-ruled paper — writing paper with light horizontal lines printed across at regular intervals
- folie de grandeur — a delusion of grandeur; megalomania.
- four-letter words — any of a number of short words, usually of four letters, considered offensive or vulgar because of their reference to excrement or sex.
- four-rowed barley — a class of barley having, in each spike, six rows of grain, with two pairs of rows overlapping.
- fourfold purchase — a tackle that is composed of a rope passed through two fourfold blocks in such a way as to provide mechanical power in the ratio of 1 to 5 or 1 to 4, depending on whether hauling is done on the running or the standing block and without considering friction. Compare tackle (def 2).
- full load current — A full load current is the largest current that a motor or other device is designed to carry under particular conditions.
- great namaqualand — an arid coastal region in the S part of Namibia, extending into the Cape of Good Hope province of the Republic of South Africa, divided by the Orange River into two regions, one in Namibia (Great Namaqualand) the other in South Africa (Little Namaqualand) inhabited by the Nama.
- greenland current — the ocean current flowing clockwise around S Greenland.
- greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
- gridiron pendulum — a clock pendulum having, as part of its shaft, an arrangement of brass and steel rods having different coefficients of expansion, such that the pendulum has the same length at any temperature.
- gross value added — the aggregate of values added throughout an economy, which represents that economy's gross domestic product
- ground angle shot — a photograph or film shot in which the lens is near the ground, usually pointing up somewhat
- guardhouse lawyer — a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.
- guardian ad litem — a person appointed by a court as guardian of an infant or other person to act on his or her behalf in a particular action or proceeding.
- gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
- half-round chisel — a cold chisel with a semicircular cutting edge used for making narrow channels
- hammered dulcimer — dulcimer (sense 1)
- heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
- hold one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- homeland security — national defence
- household cavalry — (in Britain) cavalry units forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- household rubbish — the unwanted things and waste material produced in the running of a household, such as used paper, empty tins and bottles, and waste food
- hurler's syndrome — a medical condition characterized by physical deformity and mental deficiency
- hydrogen fluoride — a colorless corrosive gas, HF, the anhydride of hydrofluoric acid, used chiefly as a catalyst and in the fluorination of hydrocarbons.