11-letter words containing d, o, m
- domiciliate — to domicile.
- dominations — an act or instance of dominating.
- domineering — inclined to rule arbitrarily or despotically; overbearing; tyrannical: domineering parents.
- dominionism — A tendency among some conservative Christians, especially in the USA, to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action.
- domoic acid — an amino acid found in shellfish that can cause food poisoning
- don juanism — a syndrome, occurring in males, of excessive preoccupation with sexual gratification or conquest and leading to persistently transient and sometimes exploitative relationships.
- donor sperm — sperm which has been voluntarily given for use in the insemination of another person
- dorian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from D to D.
- dormitories — Plural form of dormitory.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- double demy — a size of printing paper, 22½ × 35 inches (57 × 89 cm).
- double dome — an intellectual; egghead.
- double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
- double room — double (def 13).
- double time — a doubled wage rate, paid for working on public holidays, etc
- double-dome — an intellectual; egghead.
- double-team — to defend against or block (an opposing player) by using two players, as in football or basketball: By double-teaming the end the safety men left the other receiver in the open.
- double-time — to cause to move in double time: Double-time the troops to the mess hall.
- down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
- downpayment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- draftswoman — a woman employed in making mechanical drawings.
- draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
- dragon beam — dragging piece.
- dream world — the world of imagination or illusion rather than of objective reality.
- dromaeosaur — Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.
- dromedaries — Plural form of dromedary.
- dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
- drop hammer — drop forge.
- drosometers — Plural form of drosometer.
- drum out of — to expel from (the army) with drums beating
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- drunkometer — a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a person's breath to determine the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.
- dry compass — a compass having a compass card mounted on pivots.
- dry shampoo — a product in powder or spray form that you can use to clean hair without wetting it
- dumbed down — (jargon) Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- dumfounding — Present participle of dumfound.
- dummy block — a freely moving cylinder for transmitting the pressure of a ram to a piece being extruded.
- dummy joint — a slot cut into a concrete slab to prevent serious fractures.
- duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
- dyer's moss — a lichen, Roccella tinctoria, from which the purple dye orchil can be prepared.
- dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
- dynamometer — An instrument that measures the power output of an engine.
- dynamometry — The measurement of forces doing work.
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- east meadow — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
- edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
- embarcadero — (rare) A quay; a wharf.
- embodiments — Plural form of embodiment.