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14-letter words containing d, o, e

  • do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
  • do you suppose — You can use 'do you suppose' to introduce a question when you want someone to give their opinion about something, although you know that they are unlikely to have any more knowledge or information about it than you.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
  • dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
  • dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
  • dolichocephaly — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • dollar-average — to engage in dollar averaging.
  • domain address — (networking)   The name of a host on the Internet belonging to the hierarchy of Internet domains.
  • domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
  • domestic staff — servants
  • domestications — Plural form of domestication.
  • don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.
  • dongle cracker — (security)   Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
  • donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
  • donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • door-key child — latchkey child.
  • doppler effect — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
  • double bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
  • double bedroom — a large bedroom
  • double blossom — a disease of blackberries and dewberries, characterized by witches'-brooms and flower malformations, caused by a fungus, Cercosporella rubi.
  • double coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
  • double dresser — a dresser having two long drawers across its width for most of its height.
  • double dribble — an infraction, resulting in loss of possession of the ball, occurring either when a player uses both hands simultaneously when dribbling or when a player interrupts a dribble by holding the ball momentarily in one or both hands.
  • double drummer — a type of cicada
  • double entente — a double meaning; ambiguity.
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
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