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11-letter words containing a, r, o, d

  • downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
  • downgrading — Present participle of downgrade.
  • downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
  • downloaders — Plural form of downloader.
  • downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
  • doxographer — a person who collects the opinions and conjectures of ancient Greek philosophers
  • dr. zhivago — a novel (1958) by Boris Pasternak.
  • draft board — a board of civilians charged with registering, classifying, and selecting persons for U.S. military service.
  • draftswoman — a woman employed in making mechanical drawings.
  • draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
  • drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
  • drag harrow — a type of harrow consisting of heavy beams, often with spikes inserted, used to crush clods, level soil, or prepare seedbeds
  • drag out of — to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force
  • drag-n-drop — (spelling)   Stupid spelling of drag and drop.
  • dragon beam — dragging piece.
  • dragon book — (publication)   The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
  • dragon lady — (often initial capital letters) a woman of somewhat sinister glamour often perceived as wielding ruthless or corrupt power.
  • dragon tree — a tall, treelike plant, Dracaena draco, of the Canary Islands, scarce in the wild but common in cultivation, yielding a variety of dragon's blood.
  • dragon-head — dragonhead.
  • dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
  • drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
  • dreadlocked — Wearing dreadlocks.
  • dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
  • dream world — the world of imagination or illusion rather than of objective reality.
  • dromaeosaur — Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.
  • dromedaries — Plural form of dromedary.
  • dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
  • drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.
  • drop a line — send a message
  • drop anchor — secure a ship in place
  • drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
  • drop cannon — a shot in which the first object ball joins or gathers with the cue ball and the other object ball, esp at the top of the table
  • drop hammer — drop forge.
  • drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
  • drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
  • dry compass — a compass having a compass card mounted on pivots.
  • dry shampoo — a product in powder or spray form that you can use to clean hair without wetting it
  • dry-dockage — the act or fact of placing a ship in a dry dock.
  • dry-roasted — roasted with no oil, or less oil than is usually used in roasting, so that the product is drier, crisper, and less caloric: dry-roasted peanuts.
  • dual ported — A term used to describe memory integrated circuits which can be accessed simultaneously via two independent address and data busses. Dual ported memory is often used in video display hardware, especially in conjunction with Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). The two ports allow the video display hardware to read memory to display the contents on screen at the same time as the CPU writes data to other areas of the same memory. In single-ported memory these two processes cannot occur simultanteously, the CPU must wait, thus resulting in slower access times. Cycle stealing is one technique used to avoid this in single-ported video memory.
  • duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
  • duster coat — a woman's loose summer coat with wide sleeves and no buttons, popular in the mid-20th century
  • dwarf shoot — a very thin lateral branch in certain trees.
  • dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
  • dynamometer — An instrument that measures the power output of an engine.
  • dynamometry — The measurement of forces doing work.
  • dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
  • early doors — at an early stage
  • earth lodge — a circular, usually dome-shaped dwelling of certain North American Indians, made of posts and beams covered variously with branches, grass, sod, or earth and having a central opening in the roof, a tamped earth floor, and frequently a vestibule.
  • edificatory — intended or serving to edify.
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