14-letter words containing u, n, d, a, r
- industrialized — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
- industrializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of industrialize.
- inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- internal audit — an audit conducted by company accountants on a regular basis (distinguished from independent audit).
- intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
- juan fernandez — a group of three islands in the S Pacific, 400 miles (645 km) W of and belonging to Chile: Alexander Selkirk, the alleged prototype of Robinson Crusoe, was marooned here 1704.
- jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- kidney failure — loss of renal function
- laetare sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent when the introit begins with “ Laetare Jerusalem ” (Rejoice ye, Jerusalem).
- landing ground — airfield
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- latitudinarian — allowing or characterized by latitude in opinion or conduct, especially in religious views.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
- long underwear — a close-fitting, usually knitted undergarment with legs reaching to the ankles, as a union suit, worn as protection against the cold.
- long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
- loud and clear — loudly and clearly
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
- malodorousness — The state or condition of being malodorous.
- mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
- martin du gard — Roger [raw-zhey] /rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1958, French novelist: Nobel prize 1937.
- mature student — sb enrolled in study after usual age
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
- modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
- nacreous cloud — a rarely seen, luminous, iridescent cloud shaped like a cirrus or altocumulus, approximately 15 miles (24 km) above the earth, and of unknown composition.
- nanostructured — Having a nanostructure; a structure designed on the nano scale.
- national guard — state military forces, in part equipped, trained, and quartered by the U.S. government, and paid by the U.S. government, that become an active component of the army when called into federal service by the president in civil emergencies. Compare militia (def 2).
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- natural gender — gender based on the sex or, for neuter, the lack of sex of the referent of a noun, as English girl (feminine) is referred to by the feminine pronoun she, boy (masculine) by the masculine pronoun he, and table (neuter) by the neuter pronoun it.
- nebuchadnezzar — Also, Nebuchadrezzar [neb-uh-kuh d-rez-er, neb-yoo-] /ˌnɛb ə kədˈrɛz ər, ˌnɛb yʊ-/ (Show IPA). a king of Babylonia, 604?–561? b.c., and conqueror of Jerusalem. II Kings 24, 25.
- neubrandenburg — a city in Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, in NE Germany.
- neuromodulator — any of various substances, as certain hormones and amino acids, that influence the function of neurons but do not act as neurotransmitters.
- neuroradiology — the branch of radiology dealing with the central nervous system
- neutral ground — a median strip on a highway or boulevard, especially one planted with grass.
- newfoundlander — a native or inhabitant of Newfoundland.
- nitroguanidine — (chemistry) A colourless, crystalline solid manufactured from guanine and used in explosives and pesticides.
- non-enumerated — to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list: Let me enumerate the many flaws in your hypothesis.