11-letter words containing n, d, o, u
- deuteronomy — the fifth book of the Old Testament, containing a second statement of the Mosaic Law
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- deviousness — The characteristic of being devious; sneakiness; underhandedness.
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- diffusional — Of or pertaining to diffusion.
- dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
- diminuendos — Plural form of diminuendo.
- diminutions — Plural form of diminution.
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- dinosaurian — pertaining to or of the nature of a dinosaur.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- discounting — Present participle of discount.
- discoursing — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discussions — Plural form of discussion.
- disenshroud — to free from a shroud
- disfunction — dysfunction.
- dishonoured — Simple past tense and past participle of dishonour.
- dishonourer — One who dishonours.
- disillusion — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- disjunction — the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined: a disjunction between thought and action.
- dismounting — Present participle of dismount.
- dismutation — (biochemistry) A disproportionation reaction, especially in a biological context, in which oxidized and reduced forms of a chemical species are produced simultaneously.
- disputation — the act of disputing or debating; verbal controversy; discussion or debate.
- disruptions — Plural form of disruption.
- dissentious — contentious; quarrelsome.
- dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- disunionist — a person who advocates or causes disunion.
- divulgation — to make publicly known; publish.
- do a runner — escape, run away
- do business — trade
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- dockominium — a dock or boat slip bought and sold as real property.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- documenting — Present participle of document.
- dog curtain — a flap on a canvas cover for a binnacle, affording a view of the compass when raised.
- dog fouling — the offence of being in charge of a dog and failing to remove the faeces after it defecates in a public place
- dolefulness — The characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
- don juanism — a syndrome, occurring in males, of excessive preoccupation with sexual gratification or conquest and leading to persistently transient and sometimes exploitative relationships.
- don quixote — Don, Don Quixote.
- dongting hu — lake in Hunan province, SE China: c. 1,450 sq mi (3,755 sq km); during floods, over 4,000 sq mi (10,360 sq km)
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- donut peach — fruit
- double bind — Psychology. a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, especially by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other.
- double bond — a chemical linkage consisting of two covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by two lines, two dots, or four dots, as CH 2 =CH 2 ; CH 2 :CH 2 ; CH 2 ::CH 2 .
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.