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15-letter words containing u, n, d, e

  • nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
  • nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
  • number one wood — driver (def 4).
  • nursing studies — the study of nursing
  • ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
  • odd permutation — a permutation of a set of n elements, x 1 , x 2 , …, xn, which permutes the product of all differences of the form (xi – xj), where i is less than j, into the negative of the product.
  • odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
  • off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • office building — building containing offices
  • oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
  • omnibus edition — a television or radio programme consisting of two or more programmes broadcast earlier in the week
  • openmouthedness — the state or condition of being filled with amazement and wonder
  • ordered n-tuple — a set of n objects or quantities, where n is an integer, especially such a set arranged in a specified order (ordered n-tuple)
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
  • ortho-toluidine — Chemistry. a light-yellow, very slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 9 N, the ortho isomer of toluidine: used in the manufacture of dyes, saccharin, and other organic compounds, and in textile printing processes.
  • out in the cold — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
  • overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
  • painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
  • pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
  • parent compound — a compound from which derivatives may be obtained.
  • partial denture — an artificial replacement of one or several of the teeth (partial denture) or all of the teeth (full denture) of either or both jaws; dental prosthesis.
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • pendulum effect — Also called pendulum law. Physics. a law, discovered by Galileo in 1602, that describes the regular, swinging motion of a pendulum by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
  • perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
  • piano reduction — a musical score having the parts condensed or simplified in two staves, to render the music playable on the piano by one person.
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
  • polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • pound one's ear — to sleep
  • pre-delinquency — failure in or neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default: delinquency in payment of dues.
  • prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
  • premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • premier danseur — the leading male dancer in a ballet company.
  • printed circuit — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • production line — an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1 (def 29).
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • protonephridium — a tubular, excretory structure in certain invertebrates, as flatworms, rotifers, and some larvae, usually ending internally in flame cells and having an external pore
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
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