10-letter words containing d, o, e
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- door money — admission fee to a place of entertainment or recreation.
- door prize — a prize awarded at a dance, party, or the like, either by chance through a drawing or as a reward, as for having the best costume.
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- doorframes — Plural form of doorframe.
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- doorkeeper — a person who guards the entrance of a building.
- doorperson — A doorman or doorwoman.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- dope fiend — a drug addict.
- dope sheet — a bulletin or list including the names of entries in various horse races, and including information on each entry, as the name, jockey, and past performances.
- dope-sheet — a racing form, esp. one dealing with a program of races at one track
- dopexamine — A \u03b21- and \u03b22-adrenergic receptor agonist.
- dopplerite — an organic amorphous mineral of dark colour, found mainly in Austria and Switzerland
- dorbeetles — Plural form of dorbeetle.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- dorsifixed — (botany) Said of anthers that are attached to the filament somewhere along their back.
- dorsigrade — (of animals such as certain armadillos) walking on the backs of the toes
- dorsovelar — articulated with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate, as (k) and (ŋ)
- dosemeters — Plural form of dosemeter.
- dosimeters — Plural form of dosimeter.
- dosimetric — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- doss house — flophouse.
- doss-house — A doss-house is a kind of cheap hotel in a city for people who have no home and very little money.
- dosshouses — Plural form of dosshouse.
- dostoevski — ˈFeodor Miˈkhailovich (ˈfjɔˈdɔʀ mɪ xaɪlɔvɪtʃ) ; fy^ōˈd^ōr mi khīˈl^ōvich) 1821-81; Russ. novelist
- dostoevsky — Fyodor Mikhailovich [fyoh-der mi-kahy-luh-vich;; Russian fyaw-duh r myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˈfyoʊ dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈfyɔ dər myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1821–81, Russian novelist.
- dot-commer — a company doing business mostly or solely on the Internet.
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double bar — a double vertical line on a staff indicating the conclusion of a piece of music or a subdivision of it.
- double bed — a bed large enough for two adults, especially a bed measuring 54 inches (137 cm) wide; full-size bed.
- double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double day — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
- double-dip — 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.
- doubleness — the quality or condition of being double.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- douchiness — (slang, derogatory) The quality of being douchey or douchy; objectionableness.
- doug lenat — (person) One of the world's leading computer scientists specialising in Artificial Intelligence. He is currently (1999) head of the Cyc Project at MCC, and President of Cycorp. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University. See also microLenat.
- doughbelly — stoneroller (def 1).
- doughfaced — over-persuadable