11-letter words containing d, o, k, e
- deadlocking — Present participle of deadlock.
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- deep pocket — extensive financial resources; great wealth
- delta stock — any of the fourth rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange. Market makers need not display prices of these securities continuously and any prices displayed are taken only as an indication rather than an offer to buy or sell
- demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
- desert rock — a type of heavy-metal music that has strong country-rock and folk influences
- desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
- desk editor — someone employed to read through newspaper text before publication to correct errors
- desk jobber — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
- desk jockey — an office worker who sits at a desk, often as contrasted with someone who does more important or active work: desk jockeys at the CIA.
- deuterotoky — parthenogenesis in which both males and females are produced
- diazoalkane — any diazo compound having the general formula R 2 CN 2 , where R is hydrogen or any saturated organic group, as diazomethane, CH 2 N 2 .
- dinner fork — a fork used to eat the main course of a meal.
- disc jockey — a person who conducts a radio broadcast consisting of recorded music, informal talk, commercial announcements, etc.
- disk flower — one of a number of small tubular flowers composing the disk of certain composite plants.
- disk jockey — radio host
- do a stroke — If someone does not do a stroke of work, they are very lazy and do no work at all.
- dock strike — an industrial dispute involving dock workers
- dock worker — A dock worker is a person who works in the docks, loading and unloading ships.
- dockmackies — Plural form of dockmackie.
- dockworkers — Plural form of dockworker.
- doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
- dongle-disk — /don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.
- donkey ride — a ride on the back of a donkey, esp for recreation
- donkey vote — a vote on a preferential ballot on which the voter's order of preference follows the order in which the candidates are listed
- donkey work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donkey-lick — to defeat decisively
- donkey-work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- doodle-sack — bagpipe (def 1).
- doodlesacks — Plural form of doodlesack.
- doorkeepers — Plural form of doorkeeper.
- doorknocker — A knocker mounted on a door.
- double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
- double lock — a spring lock that can also serve as a deadbolt by an extra turn of the key
- double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
- double-book — to overbook by accepting more than one reservation for the same hotel room, airplane seat, etc.
- double-deck — Also, double-decked. having two decks, tiers, or levels: a double-deck bunk; a double-deck bus.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-lock — to lock with two turns of a key, so that a second bolt is engaged.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.