11-letter words containing d, o
- dog fancier — a person with a special interest in dogs
- dog fouling — the offence of being in charge of a dog and failing to remove the faeces after it defecates in a public place
- dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
- dog licence — a special license which permits the holder to be the keeper of a dog
- dog officer — dogcatcher.
- dog whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dog-eat-dog — marked by destructive or ruthless competition; without self-restraint, ethics, etc.: It's a dog-eat-dog industry.
- dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- dogfighting — a violent fight between dogs.
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- doggishness — The quality of being doggish.
- doggy style — of sexual intercourse, a position whereby the female is on all fours and the male is behind her
- dogmatizing — Present participle of dogmatize.
- dogmatology — the study and science of religious dogma
- dogtrotting — Present participle of dogtrot.
- dolabriform — shaped like an ax or a cleaver.
- dole office — an informal term for a job centre
- dolefulness — The characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
- doll's pram — toy: miniature baby carriage
- dollar area — those countries among which trade is conducted in U.S. dollars or in freely convertible currencies.
- dollar bill — a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- dollar rate — a variable amount of foreign currency quoted against one unit of the US Dollar
- dollar sign — the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.
- dollishness — The quality of being dollish.
- dolorimeter — an instrument used in dolorimetry.
- dolorimetry — a technique for measuring the sensitivity to pain produced by heat rays focused on an area of skin and recorded in dols.
- dolphinfish — dolphin (def 2).
- doltishness — The characteristic of being doltish.
- domain name — fully qualified domain name
- domenichino — (Domenico Zampieri (Le Dominiquin)) 1581–1641, Italian painter.
- domesticate — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domesticity — the state of being domestic; domestic or home life.
- domesticize — To make domestic; domesticate.
- domiciliary — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- 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 cossack — a member of the eastern branch of the Cossacks, living along the Don
- don juanism — a syndrome, occurring in males, of excessive preoccupation with sexual gratification or conquest and leading to persistently transient and sometimes exploitative relationships.
- don quixote — Don, Don Quixote.
- don't knows — people who have not reached a definite opinion on a subject, esp as a response to a questionnaire
- 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.
- dongting hu — lake in Hunan province, SE China: c. 1,450 sq mi (3,755 sq km); during floods, over 4,000 sq mi (10,360 sq km)
- 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