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13-letter words containing l, o, u, d

  • double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
  • double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
  • double nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • double paddle — a paddle with a blade at each end, as that of the kayak.
  • double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • double vision — diplopia.
  • double whammy — twofold misfortune
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
  • double window — a window with two panes of glass
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
  • double-booked — to overbook by accepting more than one reservation for the same hotel room, airplane seat, etc.
  • double-bottom — tandem trailer (def 1).
  • double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • double-decker — something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
  • 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-dotted — (of a note) increased to one and three quarters of its original time value by the addition of two dots
  • double-double — a cup of coffee served with two helpings of cream and sugar
  • 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-figure — double-digit.
  • double-glazed — of, having, or provided with double glazing: double-glazed windows and doors.
  • double-header — 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.
  • double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
  • double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
  • double-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
  • double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
  • doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
  • douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
  • dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
  • dual national — a person that has dual nationality
  • ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
  • duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • dumbfoundedly — In a dumbfounded manner.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
  • durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • educationally — pertaining to education.
  • endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
  • eudicotyledon — any plant belonging to one of the two major groups of flowering plants, comprising over 60 per cent of all plants, normally having net-veined leaves and two cotyledons in the seed
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