11-letter words containing d, o
- 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.
- donner pass — a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada, in E California. 7135 feet (2175 meters) high.
- donnishness — The quality of being donnish.
- donnybrooks — Plural form of donnybrook.
- donor organ — an organ which has been voluntarily given for the use of another person
- donor sperm — sperm which has been voluntarily given for use in the insemination of another person
- donut peach — fruit
- doodle-sack — bagpipe (def 1).
- doodlesacks — Plural form of doodlesack.
- door charge — an entrance fee.
- door handle — doorknob.
- door opener — a mechanism that automatically opens a door, as of a garage, when actuated by a radio transmitter, electric eye, or other device.
- doorbusters — Plural form of doorbuster.
- doorkeepers — Plural form of doorkeeper.
- doorknocker — A knocker mounted on a door.
- doorpersons — Plural form of doorperson.
- doorstepper — a person who goes from door-to-door in order to canvass or interview
- doorstopper — A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door.
- dope addict — Slang. a drug addict.
- dope pusher — pusher (def 2).
- 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.
- dorsal root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- dorset down — a breed of stocky hornless sheep having a broad head, dark face, and a dense fleece: kept for lamb production
- dorset horn — one of an English breed of sheep having a close-textured, medium-length wool.
- dorset naga — a British-grown variety of the Naga Jolokia chilli pepper, noted for its extreme heat
- dorsetshire — a county in S England. 1024 sq. mi. (2650 sq. km).
- dorsiferous — borne on the back, as the sori on most ferns.
- dorsiflexor — a muscle causing dorsiflexion.
- dorsispinal — of or relating to the back and the spine.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- dot address — An Internet address in dot notation.
- dot etching — a method of making corrections in halftone positives or negatives by using chemicals to reduce the size of halftone dots.
- dot leaders — (text) A row of full stops intended to guide the reader's eye across the page from a column of variable length items on the left to the corresponding items in a column on the right. Used, for example, in the contents page of a book to tie a heading on the left to its page number on the right.
- dot product — inner product (def 1).
- dotted line — a line on a contract or similar document for a party's signature.
- dotted pair — (programming) The usual LISP syntax for representing a cons cell that is not a list. For example, the expression (cons 'foo 42) returns a cons cell that is output as (foo . 42) which represents a cons cell whose car is the symbol "foo" and whose cdr is the integer 42.
- dotted quad — dot notation
- douay bible — an English translation of the Bible, prepared by Roman Catholic scholars from the Vulgate. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament was published at Douai in 1609–10.
- 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 bass — the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played.
- double bill — presentation: two films
- double bind — Psychology. a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, especially by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other.
- double bond — a chemical linkage consisting of two covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by two lines, two dots, or four dots, as CH 2 =CH 2 ; CH 2 :CH 2 ; CH 2 ::CH 2 .
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
- double date — two couples meeting socially