15-letter words containing r, u, d, n
- building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
- bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
- bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
- burden of proof — The burden of proof is the task of proving that you are correct, for example when you have accused someone of a crime.
- burt l standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- bury st edmunds — a market town in E England, in Suffolk. Pop: 36 218 (2001)
- butter-and-eggs — any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
- butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- cardinal humour — any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
- cardinal number — A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number.
- cardinal virtue — anything considered to be an important or characteristic virtue: Tenacity is his cardinal virtue.
- cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
- cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
- cast around for — If you cast around for something or cast about for it, you try to find it or think of it.
- cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
- central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
- chanson d'amour — love song.
- children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
- church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
- circuit binding — a style of limp-leather binding, used esp for Bibles and prayer books, in which the edges of the cover bend over to protect the edges of the pages
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- conductiometric — conductometric
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
- contadora group — a group of four Latin American nations, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela, formed in January, 1983, to help solve the problems of the region.
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
- counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
- counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- countertendency — an opposite tendency
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- country dweller — a person who lives in the country
- cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
- credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
- cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
- crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
- cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
- currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials