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14-letter words containing u, r, l

  • dunning letter — a letter pressing someone for payment
  • duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
  • duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
  • duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
  • dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
  • dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
  • earl of surreyEarl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • earned surplus — retained earnings.
  • electrocautery — Cautery using a needle or other instrument that is electrically heated.
  • electroculture — the practice of using electricity in agriculture or horticulture in order to stimulate plant growth
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
  • equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • 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.
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • fault tolerant — fault tolerance
  • fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • fertility cult — a religious cult devoted to the enhancement of the fertility of persons, plants, or animals, by means of rituals often associated with a particular deity.
  • fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • first language — mother tongue
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