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14-letter words containing s, u, n, d

  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
  • double bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
  • ductless gland — endocrine gland.
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
  • dunkirk spirit — fortitude and stoicism in a demanding or dangerous situation
  • dust and ashes — something that is very disappointing
  • dust explosion — an explosion caused by the ignition of an inflammable dust, such as flour or sawdust, in the air
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
  • earned surplus — retained earnings.
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fused sentence — a written sequence of two or more main clauses that are not separated by a period or semicolon or joined by a conjunction.
  • futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
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