15-letter words containing u, d, c
- discountenances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discountenance.
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- dishcloth gourd — loofah (def 1).
- disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- distance runner — a participant in distance races.
- distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
- disulfuric acid — pyrosulfuric acid
- dithionous acid — an unstable dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of dithionite salts. It is a powerful reducing agent. Formula: H2S2O4
- 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.
- document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
- documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
- domain calculus — (database) A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
- double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
- 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-declutch — to change to a lower gear in a motor vehicle by first placing the gear lever into the neutral position before engaging the desired gear, at the same time releasing the clutch pedal and increasing the engine speed
- dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
- drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- duchesse brisee — See under duchesse.
- duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
- duque de caxias — a city in SE Brazil: a suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- 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.
- dynamic routing — (networking) (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
- dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- 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.
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- elections judge — someone who oversees an election
- eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
- endonucleolytic — relating to endonuclease
- eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
- eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
- eurocheque card — a card that must be shown along with Eurocheques when using them to pay for goods or services. Eurocheque cards were withdrawn in 2002
- excluded middle — the principle that every proposition is either true or false, so that there is no third truth-value and no statements lack truth-value
- exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
- executive board — administrative committee
- executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
- extrajudicially — Outside of the legal system.
- faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
- fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
- field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
- fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
- fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
- florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
- fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
- flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.