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12-letter words containing d, i, o

  • dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
  • dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
  • downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
  • downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
  • downy mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
  • draconically — (often lowercase) Draconian.
  • dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
  • drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
  • drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
  • dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
  • drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
  • drill collar — A drill collar is a thick tubular piece at the bottom of a drillpipe, which concentrates the weight on the rotating drill bit.
  • drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
  • driving iron — Golf. a club with a long shaft and an iron head the face of which has almost no slope, for hitting long, low drives.
  • drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
  • drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
  • drop forging — a product made by drop-forging
  • drop initial — inset initial.
  • drop shipper — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
  • drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
  • dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
  • dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
  • duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
  • ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
  • dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
  • dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
  • dumortierite — a mineral, aluminum borosilicate.
  • duodecennial — relating to twelve years
  • duodecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 39 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 72 zeros.
  • duplications — Plural form of duplication.
  • duty officer — In the police or armed forces, a duty officer is an officer who is on duty at a particular time.
  • dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
  • dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
  • dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
  • dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
  • east detroit — a city in SE Michigan.
  • easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
  • easy does it — If you say 'Easy does it', you are telling someone to be careful and not to use too much effort, especially when they are moving something large and awkward.
  • echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
  • eco-friendly — environmentally safe
  • edge molding — a convexly rounded molding having a fillet or concavity at or near its centerline.
  • edifications — Plural form of edification.
  • editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
  • editorial we — we (def 6).
  • editorialise — Alternative spelling of editorialize.
  • editorialist — an article in a newspaper or other periodical or on a website presenting the opinion of the publisher, writer, or editor.
  • editorialize — to set forth one's position or opinion on some subject in, or as if in, an editorial.
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