13-letter words containing d, o, c, u
- discontinuity — lack of continuity; irregularity: The plot of the book was marred by discontinuity.
- discontinuous — not continuous; broken; interrupted; intermittent: a discontinuous chain of mountains; a discontinuous argument.
- discounselled — lacking support or counsel
- discount card — a card that entitles the holder to buy goods from a seller at a discount
- discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
- discourtesies — Plural form of discourtesy.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
- dna computing — (architecture) The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
- do justice to — to show to full advantage
- document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- 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
- documentation — the use of documentary evidence.
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- 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.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- donor country — a country which provides aid to a developing country
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- double bounce — (of the ball in tennis, table tennis, etc) two bounces on the same side of the net before a return
- double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- 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-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
- dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
- dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
- duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
- dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.