10-letter words containing c, d, u
- drumsticks — Plural form of drumstick.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- 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.
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- 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.
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- duck's ass — DA.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckbilled — Having a bill like that of a duck.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duckfooted — afflicted with splayfoot.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- dulce gulf — Izabal, Lake.
- dulcifying — Present participle of dulcify.
- dulciloquy — a way of speaking that is mellow and agreeable
- dumb cluck — a stupid person.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- dump truck — a usually open-topped truck having a body that can be tilted to discharge its contents, as sand or gravel, through an open tailgate.
- duodecagon — dodecagon.
- duodecimal — pertaining to twelfths or to the number 12.
- duodecimos — Plural form of duodecimo.
- 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.
- dust cloud — a large cloud of dust that hangs in the air
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- dutch doll — a jointed wooden doll
- dutch door — a door consisting of two units horizontally divided so that each half can be opened or closed separately.
- dutch gold — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dutch rush — scouring rush.
- dutch wife — (in tropical countries) an open framework used in bed as a rest for the limbs.
- dutchesses — Plural form of dutchess.
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
- dysfluency — disfluency.
- ecuadorean — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- ecuadorian — person from Ecuador
- educatable — capable of being educated.
- educations — Plural form of education.