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14-letter words containing u, n, d, e, c, i

  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
  • dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
  • direct current — Electricity. an electric current of constant direction, having a magnitude that does not vary or varies only slightly. Abbreviation: dc.
  • direct insurer — A direct insurer is an insurance company that sells its policies directly to customers without using intermediaries.
  • discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
  • discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • district nurse — In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.
  • diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
  • dna sequencing — the procedure of determining the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
  • education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
  • field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
  • hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • indecorousness — The quality of being indecorous.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
  • intussuscepted — Received into some other thing or part, like a sword into a sheath.
  • justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
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