10-letter words containing a, d, u
- drug baron — the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs
- drug habit — addiction to recreational drugs
- drug squad — a police unit dedicated to the investigation of drugs offences
- drug-taker — someone who takes illegal drugs
- drugs raid — a sudden and unexpected visit by the police, often involving forced entry, with the aim of finding any illegal drugs
- drum brake — a brake system in which a pair of brake shoes can be pressed against the inner surface of a shallow metal drum that is rigidly attached to a wheel.
- drum major — the marching leader of a drum corps or a band.
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- drumbeater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- drunk dial — a phone call made by someone who is intoxicated.
- drunk tank — a large jail cell where persons arrested for drunkenness are kept, usually overnight.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- drury lane — a street in London, England, formerly notable for its theaters, named after the house Sir William Drury built there in the reign of Henry VIII.
- du cerceau — Androuet [ahn-droo-e] /ɑ̃ druˈɛ/ (Show IPA), Androuet du Cerceau.
- du chaillu — Paul Belloni [pawl buh-loh-nee;; French pawl be-law-nee] /pɔl bəˈloʊ ni;; French pɔl bɛ lɔˈni/ (Show IPA), 1835–1903, U.S. explorer in Africa, traveler, and writer; born in France.
- du maurier — Dame Daphne (Lady Browning) 1907–1989, English novelist.
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- dual-homed — (networking) A kind of connection to a FDDI network where a host is simultaneously connected to two separate devices in the same FDDI ring. One of the connections becomes active while the other one is automatically blocked. If the first connection fails, the backup link takes over with no perceptible delay. A dual-homed device can tolerate a fault in one of its "homes" whereas a dual-attached device can tolerate a fault in one of the rings.
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- dubitation — doubt.
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- duck's ass — DA.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- duennaship — The role or status of duenna.
- duffel bag — a large, cylindrical bag, especially of canvas, for carrying personal belongings, orginally used by military personnel.
- dumb-asses — a thoroughly stupid person; blockhead.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- dummelhead — a stupid or slow-witted person
- dummy head — a model of the human head with a microphone in each ear intended to receive sound in binaural and surround sound reproduction and transmission
- dummy load — a resistive component that absorbs all the output power of an electrical generator or radio transmitter in order to simulate working conditions for test purposes
- dunderhead — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- dune grass — a stout grass, Elymus arenarius, of Eurasia, used as a binder for shifting sand.
- duniwassal — (in Scotland) a minor nobleman
- duodecagon — dodecagon.
- duodecimal — pertaining to twelfths or to the number 12.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- duplicatus — (of a cloud) consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge.
- dura mater — the tough, fibrous membrane forming the outermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Also called dura. Compare arachnoid (def 6), pia mater.
- durability — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- durational — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- durga puja — Dasehra.
- durnovaria — the Latin name for a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001)
- durrenmatt — Friedrich [freed-rik;; German free-drikh] /ˈfrid rɪk;; German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1921–90, Swiss dramatist and novelist.