15-letter words containing u, d, o
- draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
- drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
- drinking trough — a narrow open container in which water for animals is put
- drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
- droste-hulshoff — Annette Elisabeth Freiin von [ah-net-uh ey-lee-zah-bet frahy-in fuh n] /ɑˈnɛt ə eɪˈli zɑˌbɛt ˈfraɪ ɪn fən/ (Show IPA), 1797–1848, German poet.
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- dual admissions — a system whereby students attaining less good marks than what is required are offered a place provided they successfully complete another course first to improve some aspect of their work
- duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
- duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- duty to retreat — a legal principle that requires a person as a first response to back away or flee from a threatening situation rather than attempt self-defense by deadly force: Duty to retreat has always been a debatable doctrine.
- dyer's woodruff — a European plant, Asperula tinctoria, of the madder family, having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots.
- 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.
- eau de toilette — toilet water.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- edmund randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- 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
- english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
- epsilon squared — (jargon) A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
- 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
- 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.
- expeditiousness — The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
- expulsion order — a legal document ordering someone's expulsion
- faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
- feeding grounds — the place where animals gather to find food
- ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
- ferrous sulfide — a dark or black metallic crystalline compound, FeS, insoluble in water, soluble in acids, used in ceramics and to generate hydrogen sulfide.
- field of honour — the place or scene of a battle or duel, esp of jousting tournaments in medieval times
- field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
- fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
- flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
- 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.
- fluoridationist — One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
- fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
- follow-up study — a second study made as a follow-up to an initial study
- food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- football ground — an area of land where football games are played
- forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.