10-letter words containing l, o, u, d
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphyllous — having two leaves.
- diplodocus — a huge herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Diplodocus, from the Late Jurassic Epoch of western North America, growing to a length of about 87 feet (26.5 meters).
- disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- discobolus — A discus thrower.
- discolours — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discolour.
- discounsel — to advise (a person) against a specific act
- discoursal — of or relating to discourse
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- dissoluble — capable of being dissolved: tablets dissoluble in water.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- disulfoton — a pale-yellow, highly toxic liquid, C 8 H 19 O 2 PS 3 , used as an insecticide and miticide.
- documental — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dog clutch — a clutch in which projections of one of the engaging parts fit into recesses of the other.
- dole queue — When people talk about the dole queue, they are talking about the state of being unemployed, especially when saying how many people are unemployed.
- dolichurus — a dactylic hexameter characterized by a redundant syllable at the end
- dollhouses — Plural form of dollhouse.
- dolorously — In a dolorous manner.
- doodle-bug — any of various small, squat vehicles.
- doodlebugs — Plural form of doodlebug.
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double bar — a double vertical line on a staff indicating the conclusion of a piece of music or a subdivision of it.
- double bed — a bed large enough for two adults, especially a bed measuring 54 inches (137 cm) wide; full-size bed.
- double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double day — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
- double-dip — 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.
- doubleness — the quality or condition of being double.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- doubtfully — of uncertain outcome or result.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- doug lenat — (person) One of the world's leading computer scientists specialising in Artificial Intelligence. He is currently (1999) head of the Cyc Project at MCC, and President of Cycorp. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University. See also microLenat.
- doughbelly — stoneroller (def 1).
- doulocracy — Government by slaves.
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- druidology — the study of the religion, customs, and practices of the Druids.
- dual-homed — (networking) A kind of connection to a FDDI network where a host is simultaneously connected to two separate devices in the same FDDI ring. One of the connections becomes active while the other one is automatically blocked. If the first connection fails, the backup link takes over with no perceptible delay. A dual-homed device can tolerate a fault in one of its "homes" whereas a dual-attached device can tolerate a fault in one of the rings.
- dulciloquy — a way of speaking that is mellow and agreeable
- dumbledore — (dialectal) A bumblebee.
- dummy load — a resistive component that absorbs all the output power of an electrical generator or radio transmitter in order to simulate working conditions for test purposes
- duodecimal — pertaining to twelfths or to the number 12.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.