12-letter words containing l, a, o, u
- debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- deflocculant — a chemical added to slip to increase fluidity.
- deflocculate — to disperse, forming a colloid or suspension
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
- demodulation — the act or process by which an output wave or signal is obtained having the characteristics of the original modulating wave or signal; the reverse of modulation
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- depopulation — to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
- depopulative — That depopulates.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- difunctional — Bifunctional.
- dilucidation — elucidation
- disanalogous — not analogous
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- discussional — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- 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.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- 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.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double album — a commercial recording sold on two CDs or LPs
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
- 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 major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double modal — a syntactic construction in which two modal auxiliaries occur consecutively within a clause, as might could in I might could help you.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double steal — a play in which two base runners steal a base each.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
- double-glaze — If someone double-glazes a house or its windows, they fit windows that have two layers of glass which keeps the inside of the house warmer and quieter.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubleheader — 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.
- douglas hurd — a third-class university degree
- douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
- dual-control — having dual controls