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14-letter words containing u, n, d, o

  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
  • gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hognosed skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • homeward bound — going home
  • homme du monde — a man of the world; a sophisticate.
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • honours degree — a degree at honours level
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • horrendousness — the state or condition of being horrendous or dreadful
  • hound's-tongue — any of various plants belonging to the genus Cynoglossum, of the borage family, especially C. officinale, having coarse, tongue-shaped leaves, dull purple flowers, and prickly nutlets.
  • household name — a person or thing that is very well known
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • humidification — to make humid.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • immunodominant — Of or pertaining to the epitope of a molecule that provokes the most intense immune response.
  • inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
  • incommodiously — In an incommodious manner.
  • indecorousness — The quality of being indecorous.
  • indian buffalo — a member of the cattle tribe, Bubalus bubalis, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals
  • indian country — (especially during the U.S. westward migration) any region where one was likely to encounter Indians, especially hostile Indians.
  • indigenousness — The quality or state of being indigenous.
  • indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
  • indoor-outdoor — designed or constructed to be used either indoors or outdoors: indoor-outdoor carpeting.
  • induction coil — a transformer for producing high-voltage alternating current from a low-voltage direct current, consisting essentially of two concentric coils with a common soft-iron core, a primary coil with relatively few windings of heavy wire, and a secondary coil with many turns of fine wire. Excitation of the primary coil by rapidly interrupted or variable current induces high voltage in the secondary coil.
  • 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
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
  • introductorily — By way of introduction.
  • jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
  • jeunesse doree — rich and fashionable young people
  • joint compound — a plasterlike material used to cover joints or the heads of screws in drywall or plasterboard.
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
  • knockout drops — a drug secretly put into someone's drink to cause stupefaction
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
  • landing ground — airfield
  • laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
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