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

  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
  • disillusioning — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • disillusionise — Alternative spelling of disillusionize.
  • disillusionist — to disillusion.
  • disillusionize — to disillusion.
  • disingenuously — In a manner that is not frank or open; deceptively.
  • disputatiously — In a disputatious manner.
  • disquisitional — Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
  • dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
  • dissolutionism — the beliefs and practices of dissolutionists
  • dissolutionist — a person whose aim is dissolution
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • distrustful of — suspicious of; having no confidence in
  • diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
  • do the needful — to perform a necessary task
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • dot-sequential — of, relating to, or being a color television system that sends and reproduces the primary colors as dots in proper sequence on each scanned line to produce a color picture.
  • double bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
  • double bedroom — a large bedroom
  • double blossom — a disease of blackberries and dewberries, characterized by witches'-brooms and flower malformations, caused by a fungus, Cercosporella rubi.
  • double coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
  • double dresser — a dresser having two long drawers across its width for most of its height.
  • double dribble — an infraction, resulting in loss of possession of the ball, occurring either when a player uses both hands simultaneously when dribbling or when a player interrupts a dribble by holding the ball momentarily in one or both hands.
  • double drummer — a type of cicada
  • double entente — a double meaning; ambiguity.
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
  • double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
  • double-jointed — (of particular people or animals) having unusually flexible joints that can bend in unusual ways or to abnormally great extent.
  • double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
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