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11-letter words containing d, e, p, u

  • depopulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depopulate.
  • depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
  • depth gauge — a device attached to a drill bit to prevent the hole from exceeding a predetermined depth
  • deputations — Plural form of deputation.
  • deputy head — a vice-principal
  • deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
  • diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
  • dicephalous — having two heads
  • disculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of disculpate.
  • displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
  • displuviate — (of the atrium of an ancient Roman house) having roofs sloping downward and outward from a central opening.
  • disputative — Tending to dispute.
  • disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
  • donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
  • donut peach — fruit
  • dope pusher — pusher (def 2).
  • double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
  • double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
  • double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • double whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
  • double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
  • drop rudder — a rudder that can be lowered beneath the level of the bottom of a boat.
  • drug pusher — someone who encourages others to take illegal drugs and who makes money supplying illegal drugs
  • drug report — (humour)   A bug report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack. Even worse than a chug report.
  • 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.
  • duck plague — an acute, highly fatal disease of ducks caused by a herpesvirus
  • due process — established course of legal proceedings
  • dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
  • dumpishness — the state of being downhearted and dejected
  • dumpy level — an instrument consisting of a spirit level mounted under and parallel to a telescope, the latter being rigidly attached to its supports.
  • duplex lock — a lock capable of being opened either by a master key or a change key, each operating its own mechanism.
  • duplex pump — a pair of direct-acting steam pumps so arranged that each pump begins its working stroke just as the other finishes its working stroke, so that the rate of flow of the fluid is nearly continuous.
  • duplex scan — a scan that uses sound waves to show how well the blood is flowing in arteries
  • duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
  • duplicident — (of certain animals, such as rabbits) having two pairs of incisors in the upper jaw
  • dyspareunia — painful coitus.
  • 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.
  • edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
  • end product — result of a process
  • endophagous — relating to endophagy
  • episulphide — (organic chemistry) A class of organic compound analogous to epoxides in which a sulphur atom replaces the oxygen.
  • euphausiids — Plural form of euphausiid.
  • eurodeposit — a deposit of the currency of any country in the eurocurrency market
  • eurypterids — Plural form of eurypterid.
  • eurypteroid — of, relating to or resembling a eurypterid or eurypterids
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