13-letter words containing u, n, r, e, l
- countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
- counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
- countrypeople — countryfolk.
- crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
- credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
- current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
- curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
- cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to frighten or upset someone, usually by sending them unpleasant messages.
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
- deliriousness — The characteristic of being delirious.
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- denaturalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturalize.
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- denuclearized — Simple past tense and past participle of denuclearize.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- desultoriness — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- disgruntledly — In a disgruntled manner.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- effortfulness — (psychology) subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity.
- electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
- electrocution — The accidental death or suicide by electric shock.
- electron tube — (electronics) (Or tube, vacuum tube, UK: valve, electron valve, thermionic valve, firebottle, glassfet) An electronic component consisting of a space exhausted of gas to such an extent that electrons may move about freely, and two or more electrodes with external connections. Nearly all tubes are of the thermionic type where one electrode, called the cathode, is heated, and electrons are emitted from its surface with a small energy (typically a Volt or less). A second electrode, called the anode (plate) will attract the electrons when it is positive with respect to the cathode, allowing current in one direction but not the other. In types which are used for amplification of signals, additional electrodes, called grids, beam-forming electrodes, focussing electrodes and so on according to their purpose, are introduced between cathode and plate and modify the flow of electrons by electrostatic attraction or (usually) repulsion. A voltage change on a grid can control a substantially greater change in that between cathode and anode. Unlike semiconductors, except perhaps for FETs, the movement of electrons is simply a function of electrostatic field within the active region of the tube, and as a consequence of the very low mass of the electron, the currents can be changed quickly. Moreover, there is no limit to the current density in the space, and the electrodes which do dissapate power are usually metal and can be cooled with forced air, water, or other refrigerants. Today these features cause tubes to be the active device of choice when the signals to be amplified are a power levels of more than about 500 watts. The first electronic digital computers used hundreds of vacuum tubes as their active components which, given the reliability of these devices, meant the computers needed frequent repairs to keep them operating. The chief causes of unreliability are the heater used to heat the cathode and the connector into which the tube was plugged. Vacuum tube manufacturers in the US are nearly a thing of the past, with the exception of the special purpose types used in broadcast and image sensing and displays. Eimac, GE, RCA, and the like would probably refer to specific types such as "Beam Power Tetrode" and the like, and rarely use the generic terms. The cathode ray tube is a special purpose type based on these principles which is used for the visual display in television and computers. X-ray tubes are diodes (two element tubes) used at high voltage; a tungsten anode emits the energetic photons when the energetic electrons hit it. Magnetrons use magnetic fields to constrain the electrons; they provide very simple, high power, ultra-high frequency signals for radar, microwave ovens, and the like. Klystrons amplify signals at high power and microwave frequencies.
- eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
- encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
- encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
- enculturating — Present participle of enculturate.
- enculturation — The gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc.
- endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.