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14-letter words containing ur

  • do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • drag your feet — dawdle
  • draw a picture — represent sth visually
  • earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • earned surplus — retained earnings.
  • eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
  • eastern europe — geography: Russia, Baltic Republics, etc.
  • edward yourdon — (person)   A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
  • electroculture — the practice of using electricity in agriculture or horticulture in order to stimulate plant growth
  • electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endurance race — long-distance motor sport competition
  • endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
  • engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
  • european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
  • european union — political union of European countries
  • exposure meter — photography: light meter
  • exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
  • feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • figure-hugging — Figure-hugging clothes fit very close to the body of the person who is wearing them. Figure-hugging is usually used to describe clothes worn by women.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • 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.
  • fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
  • flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
  • fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
  • four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
  • four-four time — a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature 44
  • fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
  • fourier series — an infinite series that involves linear combinations of sines and cosines and approximates a given function on a specified domain.
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