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11-letter words containing d, u, o, p

  • deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
  • diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
  • diazo group — the bivalent group –N=N– united with one hydrocarbon group and another atom or group, as in benzenediazo hydroxide, C 6 H 5 N=NOH, or the bivalent group =N=N united with one hydrocarbon group, as in diazomethane, CH 2 =N=N.
  • dicephalous — having two heads
  • diplococcus — any of several spherical bacteria occurring in pairs, as Diplococcus pneumoniae.
  • disc plough — a plough that cuts by means of revolving steel discs
  • disputation — the act of disputing or debating; verbal controversy; discussion or debate.
  • disruptions — Plural form of disruption.
  • do sb proud — If someone does you proud, they treat you very well, for example by welcoming you and giving you good food and entertainment.
  • do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
  • do up right — to do carefully or thoroughly
  • donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
  • donut peach — fruit
  • dope pusher — pusher (def 2).
  • dot product — inner product (def 1).
  • double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
  • double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
  • double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • double whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
  • double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • drop rudder — a rudder that can be lowered beneath the level of the bottom of a boat.
  • drug report — (humour)   A bug report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack. Even worse than a chug report.
  • dual ported — A term used to describe memory integrated circuits which can be accessed simultaneously via two independent address and data busses. Dual ported memory is often used in video display hardware, especially in conjunction with Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). The two ports allow the video display hardware to read memory to display the contents on screen at the same time as the CPU writes data to other areas of the same memory. In single-ported memory these two processes cannot occur simultanteously, the CPU must wait, thus resulting in slower access times. Cycle stealing is one technique used to avoid this in single-ported video memory.
  • due process — established course of legal proceedings
  • duopolistic — Characteristic of a duopoly.
  • duplex lock — a lock capable of being opened either by a master key or a change key, each operating its own mechanism.
  • duplication — an act or instance of duplicating.
  • duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
  • duplicitous — marked or characterized by duplicity.
  • edp auditor — (job)   A person who analyses system functions and operations to determine adequate security and controls. An EDP analyst evaluates systems and operational procedures and reports findings to senior management. He writes ad hoc report programs using 4GLs and specialised audit software.
  • edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
  • end product — result of a process
  • endophagous — relating to endophagy
  • eurodeposit — a deposit of the currency of any country in the eurocurrency market
  • eurypteroid — of, relating to or resembling a eurypterid or eurypterids
  • expeditious — Done with speed and efficiency.
  • export duty — a government tax paid on goods exported from a country
  • foundership — The condition of having founded something.
  • funduscopic — Relating to funduscopy.
  • funemployed — without a paid job but enjoying the free time: Ask one of your funemployed friends to come along with you.
  • god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
  • green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
  • ground loop — a sharp horizontal loop performed, usually involuntarily, while touching the ground.
  • ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
  • ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
  • ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
  • ground plum — a prostrate milk vetch, Astragalus crassicarpus, of the legume family, growing in the prairie regions of North America.
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