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13-letter words containing c, e, d, u

  • deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
  • deutocerebrum — (zoology) The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
  • deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
  • dextroglucose — dextrose
  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
  • direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
  • disaccustomed — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccustom.
  • disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
  • disceptatious — disputable
  • discomycetous — of or relating to the subclass of fungus Discomycetes
  • discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
  • discounselled — lacking support or counsel
  • discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
  • discourtesies — Plural form of discourtesy.
  • disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
  • disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
  • disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
  • divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
  • do justice to — to show to full advantage
  • document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
  • documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
  • documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
  • documentation — the use of documentary evidence.
  • documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
  • dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
  • dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
  • double bounce — (of the ball in tennis, table tennis, etc) two bounces on the same side of the net before a return
  • double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
  • double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
  • double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
  • dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
  • dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
  • dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
  • duc d'enghienDuc [dyk] /dük/ (Show IPA), (Louis Antoine Henry de Bourbon-Condé) 1772–1804, French prince: executed by Napoleon I.
  • duck-egg blue — a pale greenish-blue colour
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