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13-letter words containing t, r, u, d

  • credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
  • cross product — a vector perpendicular to two given vectors, u and v, and having magnitude equal to the product of the magnitudes of the two given vectors multiplied by the sine of the angle between the two given vectors, usually represented by u × v.
  • crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
  • cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
  • culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
  • current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
  • custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
  • custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
  • customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
  • cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
  • cutter-rigged — fore-and-aft-rigged on one mast in the manner of a cutter.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
  • daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
  • daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
  • daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • data security — the protection of data stored on computers
  • daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
  • death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • deconstructed — having no formal structure
  • deconstructor — an adherent to the theory of deconstruction
  • deculturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
  • deed of trust — a written instrument legally conveying property to a trustee, such as a bank, often for the purpose of securing a mortgage or promissory note.
  • deer's-tongue — green gentian.
  • default route — (networking)   A routing table entry which is used to direct packets addressed to hosts or networks not explicitly listed in the routing table.
  • degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
  • deleteriously — In a deleterious manner; harmfully.
  • demanufacture — A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
  • demeritorious — a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency: If you receive four demerits during a term, you will be expelled from school.
  • demi-detourne — a turn in which the dancer on pointe or demi-pointe completes a half turn toward the back foot and lowers the heels, with the back foot finishing in front.
  • demultiplexer — a type of electronic circuit which receives a single input signal and selects one of multiple possible output routes to which to transmit the signal
  • denaturalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturalize.
  • denaturations — Plural form of denaturation.
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • departure tax — Departure tax is a tax that airline passengers have to pay in order to use an airport.
  • depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
  • derequisition — to release from military to civilian use
  • desert locust — a migratory locust, Schistocerca gregaria, of North Africa and Asia, associated with the plagues described in the Old Testament.
  • deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
  • destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
  • destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
  • destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
  • destructivist — a person who holds to the theory of destructivism
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