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13-letter words containing s, e, u

  • dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
  • dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
  • driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
  • dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
  • drug smuggler — trafficker in illegal substances
  • duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
  • duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
  • durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • durable press — permanent press.
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
  • east prussian — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
  • easter cactus — an epiphytic cactus, Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri, native to Brazil, having oblong joints and red flowers.
  • easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
  • ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
  • eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
  • eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
  • educationists — Plural form of educationist.
  • effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.
  • efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
  • effortfulness — (psychology) subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity.
  • egregiousness — The quality of being egregious.
  • electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
  • emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
  • empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
  • encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.
  • encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
  • encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
  • encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
  • endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
  • endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
  • ensanguinated — stained with blood
  • enteroviruses — Plural form of enterovirus.
  • entomophagous — feeding mainly on insects; insectivorous
  • entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
  • entrepreneurs — Plural form of entrepreneur.
  • entrepreneuse — a female entrepreneur
  • equalitarians — Plural form of equalitarian.
  • equestrianism — The skill or sport of horse riding . As an Olympic sport it is divided into three disciplines: show jumping, dressage, and the three-day event (combining show jumping, dressage, and cross-country riding).
  • equestriennes — Plural form of equestrienne.
  • equidistantly — In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree.
  • equilibristic — Of or pertaining to equilibristics.
  • equisetaceous — belonging to the family Equisetaceae
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