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15-letter words containing t, u, d

  • functional load — the relative frequency of occurrence of words that are differentiated in one and the same position by only one distinctive feature. In English, the opposition of voiced and voiceless th has a low functional load being used only to distinguish such pairs as ether and either, or wreath and wreathe.
  • fundamental law — the organic law of a state, especially its constitution.
  • fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
  • fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
  • furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
  • general studies — a school subject that includes a variety of skills and topics (such as comprehension, and current affairs, which may complement the study of A-levels in specific subjects)
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • get the wind up — to become frightened
  • glucocorticoids — Plural form of glucocorticoid.
  • gotterdammerung — German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • great barracuda — a large barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, of Atlantic and western Pacific seas.
  • great-grandaunt — an aunt of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
  • griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
  • ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
  • growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
  • guaranteed bond — a bond issued by a corporation in which payment of the principal, interest, or both is guaranteed by another corporation.
  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
  • guru meditation — (operating system)   The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
  • hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
  • hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
  • house detective — an employee of a department store, hotel, etc., employed to prevent thefts, violations of regulations, or other forms of misconduct on the part of patrons.
  • human condition — mortality
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • i don't suppose — You can say 'I don't suppose' as a way of introducing a polite request.
  • ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
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