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12-letter words containing d, u, t

  • disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
  • dissimulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dissimulate.
  • dissimulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissimulate.
  • dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
  • dissolutions — Plural form of dissolution.
  • distastefull — Archaic form of distasteful.
  • distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
  • distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
  • distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
  • distributees — Plural form of distributee.
  • distributers — a person or thing that distributes.
  • distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
  • distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
  • distributism — a socioeconomic theory and system advocating widespread ownership of private property and the means of production: based on late 19th-century Catholic teachings on economic and social justice.
  • distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • distributors — Plural form of distributor.
  • distrustless — without suspicion or distrust
  • disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
  • disturbative — capable of disturbing
  • disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
  • diuretically — In a diuretic way.
  • diverticular — Of or relating to diverticula.
  • diverticulum — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
  • divestitures — Plural form of divestiture.
  • do honour to — to pay homage to
  • do one's nut — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
  • do your part — contribute
  • docudramatic — Of or relating to docudrama.
  • documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
  • docutainment — infotainment (def 2).
  • donald knuth — (person)   Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
  • doodly-squat — a minimum amount or degree; the least bit (usually used in the negative): This coin collection isn't worth doodly-squat in today's market.
  • door curtain — a curtain that fills a doorway
  • double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
  • double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
  • double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
  • double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
  • double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
  • double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
  • double fault — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) two faults in succession, resulting in the loss of the point, the loss of the serve, or both.
  • double first — a first in two subjects.
  • double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
  • double quote — (character)   '"' ASCII character 34. Often used in programming languages to delimit strings. In Unix shells and Perl it delimits a string inside which variable substitution may occur. Common names: quote. Rare: literal mark; double-glitch; ITU-T: quotation marks; ITU-T: dieresis; dirk; INTERCAL: rabbit-ears; double prime.
  • double steal — a play in which two base runners steal a base each.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
  • double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
  • doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
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