13-letter words containing d, u, e, p
- depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- dien bien phu — a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.
- disceptatious — disputable
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disreputation — disrepute.
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
- 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.
- 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-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- double-dumped — (of a wool bale) compressed, with two bales occupying the volume-equivalent of one ordinary bale
- double-duplex — (communications) (From telegraphy) A full-duplex link with two telegraphers (a sender and a receiver) at each end, to simultaneously transmit in both directions. Compare: single-duplex.
- double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- durable press — permanent press.
- equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
- equiponderate — To counterbalance.
- european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
- eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
- exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
- expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
- filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
- food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
- foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
- get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
- groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
- groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
- gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
- hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
- hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
- hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
- indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
- injured party — victim