11-letter words containing d, a, u
- neoadjuvant — (medicine) Describing an adjuvant preparation given before a course of treatment.
- neutralised — Simple past tense and past participle of neutralise.
- neutralized — (American spelling) alternative spelling of neutralisedt; Simple past tense and past participle of neutralize.
- non-accrued — to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
- non-audible — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- non-dualism — the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two.
- nonauditory — not auditory, not related to hearing or its functions
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- nongraduate — a person who is not a graduate of an educational institution
- nonhumanoid — Not humanoid.
- nonjudicial — Not resulting from a court ruling or judgment.
- nose around — pry, snoop
- nostradamus — (Michel de Nostredame) 1503–66, French astrologer.
- nuclearized — Simple past tense and past participle of nuclearize.
- nucleolated — containing a nucleolus or nucleoli.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- nudicaudate — (of such animals as rats) having a hairless tail
- nudist camp — a resort where nudism is practiced
- nullifidian — a person who has no faith or religion; skeptic.
- numeric pad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- nurserymaid — Nursemaid.
- octandrious — having eight stamens.
- odd man out — a method of selecting or eliminating a person from a group, as by matching coins, especially in preparation for playing a game.
- old russian — Russian as used in documents before 1600. Abbreviation: ORuss.
- ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
- order about — to bully or domineer
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
- ouagadougou — a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 106,111 sq. mi. (274,827 sq. km). Capital: Ouagadougou.
- ouija board — board used by spiritualists
- out of date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- out-and-out — complete; total; thoroughgoing: an out-and-out lie.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- out-of-date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outdazzling — Present participle of outdazzles.
- outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
- outdoorsman — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
- outstanding — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
- overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
- overeducate — to educate too much
- painted cup — any of several semiparasitic plants of the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, having highly colored dilated bracts about the flowers.
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- paper round — job delivering newspapers
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parasuicide — the deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be successful