14-letter words containing ru
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- deep structure — a representation of a sentence at a level where logical or grammatical relations are made explicit, before transformational rules have been applied
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- distrustful of — suspicious of; having no confidence in
- do one's cruet — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
- double drummer — a type of cicada
- drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
- drum majorette — a girl or woman who leads a marching band or drum corps.
- drummond light — calcium light.
- drunk dialling — the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
- excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
- fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
- fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- forklift truck — vehicle for lifting heavy loads
- french cruller — cruller (def 2).
- french-cruller — a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.
- fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
- fructificative — having the ability to yield or produce fruit.
- fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
- gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
- giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- hammer crusher — A hammer crusher is a crusher in which a hammer hits the material that is being crushed.
- harry s truman — Elizabeth Virginia Wallace ("Bess") 1885–1982, U.S. First Lady 1945–53 (wife of Harry S Truman).
- hiram woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
- hyperuricaemia — an abnormal elevation of uric acid in the blood
- hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
- in the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
- incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
- inference rule — (logic) A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
- instrumentally — By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
- intermenstrual — Between menstrual periods.
- interrupt list — [MS-DOS] The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown <[email protected]>. As of late 1992, it had grown to approximately two megabytes in length.
- interstructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- jerusalem date — butterfly flower.
- kiln run brick — any of various bricks of sufficient hardness to be exposed to the weather.
- leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx