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

  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • elections judge — someone who oversees an election
  • endonucleolytic — relating to endonuclease
  • expeditiousness — The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
  • furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
  • general studies — a school subject that includes a variety of skills and topics (such as comprehension, and current affairs, which may complement the study of A-levels in specific subjects)
  • get the wind up — to become frightened
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
  • griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
  • ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • guru meditation — (operating system)   The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • i don't suppose — You can say 'I don't suppose' as a way of introducing a polite request.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
  • in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
  • in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
  • in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • in-suite dining — In-suite dining in a hotel is when guests eat meals in their rooms.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indistinguished — (archaic) indistinct.
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • individualities — Plural form of individuality.
  • indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
  • industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • internucleotide — occurring or existing between nucleotides
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
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