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11-letter words containing d, a, t, u, r

  • dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
  • dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
  • dirt dauber — mud dauber.
  • disasterous — Misspelling of disastrous.
  • disfeatured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfeature.
  • disregulate — Misspelling of dysregulate.
  • disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
  • disruptants — Plural form of disruptant.
  • distractful — (archaic) distracting.
  • disturbance — the act of disturbing.
  • diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
  • divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
  • documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • dog curtain — a flap on a canvas cover for a binnacle, affording a view of the compass when raised.
  • double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
  • drag out of — to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force
  • dramaturges — Plural form of dramaturge.
  • dramaturgic — Of or relating to the art of dramatic composition for the stage.
  • draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
  • draughtsman — a checker, as used in the game of checkers.
  • draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
  • draw stumps — to close play, as by pulling out the stumps
  • draw trumps — to play the trump suit until the opponents have none left
  • dreadnaught — 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.
  • 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.
  • drug addict — a person who is addicted to a narcotic.
  • drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
  • drum-beater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
  • drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
  • dry as dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
  • dry-as-dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
  • 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.
  • dumb barter — a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face.
  • dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
  • dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
  • duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
  • duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
  • durum wheat — a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
  • duster coat — a woman's loose summer coat with wide sleeves and no buttons, popular in the mid-20th century
  • dutch chair — a chair of c1700, derived from Dutch models, having curved uprights, a wide splat joined to the seat rail, and cabriole legs.
  • dutch treat — a meal or entertainment for which each person pays his or her own expenses.
  • dysregulate — (biology) To cause a dysfunctional level of an activity or chemical in an organism by disrupting normal function of a regulatory mechanism.
  • edgar guest — Edgar A(lbert) 1881–1959, U.S. journalist and writer of verse, born in England.
  • edp auditor — (job)   A person who analyses system functions and operations to determine adequate security and controls. An EDP analyst evaluates systems and operational procedures and reports findings to senior management. He writes ad hoc report programs using 4GLs and specialised audit software.
  • edulcorated — Simple past tense and past participle of edulcorate.
  • edulcorator — a device that supplies small quantities of a liquid to a mixture
  • egg custard — sweet custard made with milk and egg and baked
  • elucidators — Plural form of elucidator.
  • elucidatory — Serving to elucidate.
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