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

  • documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
  • documentation — the use of documentary evidence.
  • documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
  • domical vault — cloistered vault.
  • donnan uptake — The Donnan uptake is the uptake of an electrolyte (= a substance which electricity can pass through) as a neutral pair of ions during a sorption process.
  • doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
  • double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • 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-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
  • dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
  • draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
  • draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
  • draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
  • 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 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.
  • duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
  • dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
  • 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.
  • easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
  • educationally — pertaining to education.
  • educationists — Plural form of educationist.
  • endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
  • ensanguinated — stained with blood
  • equidistantly — In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree.
  • equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
  • equiponderate — To counterbalance.
  • eta reduction — eta conversion
  • eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
  • european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
  • excludability — The ability to be excluded.
  • exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
  • exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
  • extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
  • extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
  • faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
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