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16-letter words containing u, d, o

  • dumont d'urville — Jules Sébastien César [zhyl sey-bas-tyan sey-zar] /ʒül seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), 1790–1842, French naval officer: explored South Pacific and Antarctic.
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
  • edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
  • equidistribution — An equal distribution.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
  • fade-in fade-out — an optical effect in which a shot appears gradually out of darkness and then gradually disappears
  • fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
  • ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • fluosilicic acid — an unstable acid, H 2 SiF 6 , known only in its colorless, poisonous, fuming aqueous solution or in the form of its salts: used chiefly as a wood preservative, a disinfectant, and as a hardening agent in the manufacture of ceramic ware, cement, and concrete.
  • focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
  • food for thought — sth worth thinking about
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • foot fault judge — on official on the baseline who is responsible for calling foot faults
  • for a good cause — If you say that something is for a good cause, you mean that it is worth doing or giving to because it will help other people, for example by raising money for charity.
  • for good measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
  • forbush decrease — the sudden decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays after an increase in solar activity.
  • foundation stone — any of the stones composing the foundation of a building.
  • founders' shares — shares awarded to the founders of a company and often granting special privileges
  • four-deal bridge — a version of bridge in which four hands only are played, the players then cutting for new partners
  • four-dimensional — of a space having points, or a set having elements, which require four coordinates for their unique determination.
  • four-letter word — any of a number of short words, usually of four letters, considered offensive or vulgar because of their reference to excrement or sex.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • four-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted to all four wheels for improved traction.
  • fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
  • fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
  • frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
  • get the lead out — Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20°C.
  • gold-of-pleasure — a yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, Camelina sativa, widespread as a weed, esp in flax fields, and formerly cultivated for its oil-rich seeds: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
  • golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • good housekeeper — a person who is an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
  • grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
  • grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • grind your teeth — If you grind your teeth, you rub your upper and lower teeth together as though you are chewing something.
  • gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • ground-to-ground — (of weapons) designed to be fired at ground targets from the ground
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