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

  • cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • 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.
  • danse du ventre — belly dance
  • 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.
  • definite clause — (logic)   A Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • deindustrialise — Alternative spelling of deindustrialize.
  • deindustrialize — to reduce the importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of (a nation or area)
  • demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
  • 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.
  • deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • diallyl sulfide — allyl sulfide.
  • die standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
  • disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • distastefulness — The state or quality of being distasteful or objectionable; causing averseness; unpleasantness.
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • 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 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.
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • duque de caxias — a city in SE Brazil: a suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • ease the rudder — to reduce the angle the rudder makes with the fore-and-aft line so that the vessel will turn more gradually
  • east massapequa — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
  • eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
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