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13-letter words containing d, u, a, l

  • double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
  • double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
  • double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
  • double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
  • double paddle — a paddle with a blade at each end, as that of the kayak.
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • double whammy — twofold misfortune
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
  • double-glazed — of, having, or provided with double glazing: double-glazed windows and doors.
  • double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
  • double-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
  • dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • dual alliance — the alliance between France and Russia (1890), strengthened by a military convention (1892–93) and lasting until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
  • dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
  • dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
  • dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
  • dual national — a person that has dual nationality
  • dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
  • dualistically — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
  • durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • durable press — permanent press.
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • dzibilchaltun — a large, ancient Mayan ceremonial and commercial center near Mérida, Mexico, founded perhaps as early as 3000 b.c. and in continuous use until the 16th century.
  • educationally — pertaining to education.
  • endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
  • endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
  • equidistantly — In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree.
  • excludability — The ability to be excluded.
  • extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
  • extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
  • faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
  • fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
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