13-letter words containing d, e, u, r
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- deuterostomes — Plural form of deuterostome.
- 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- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- dexterousness — The state or quality of being dexterous.
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- disarticulate — Separate (bones) at the joints.
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
- disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
- 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.
- disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- disgruntledly — In a disgruntled manner.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- disreputation — disrepute.
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distributives — Plural form of distributive.
- diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
- divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
- 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
- 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.
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
- dos requester — (networking) An MS-DOS client that provides transparent redirection of printing and file accesses to a network server. It handles levels 3, 4 and 5 of the Open Systems Interconnect seven layer model. A DOS requester under Novell NetWare will interface to a network card driver with an ODI interface, and will be either a single executable (netx.exe) or a set of VLMs that are loaded on demand. In the IBM/Microsoft LAN Manager/SMB world, where the name DOS redirector is more common, there will be an NDIS interface driver and a net.exe executable.
- double boiler — a utensil consisting of two pots, one of which fits partway into the other: water is boiled in the lower pot to cook or warm food or melt a substance in the upper.
- double bridle — a bridle with four reins coming from a bit with two rings on each side
- double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
- double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- 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-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- double-figure — double-digit.
- double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak