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

  • dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
  • donor country — a country which provides aid to a developing country
  • dos requester — (networking)   An MS-DOS client that provides transparent redirection of printing and file accesses to a network server. It handles levels 3, 4 and 5 of the Open Systems Interconnect seven layer model. A DOS requester under Novell NetWare will interface to a network card driver with an ODI interface, and will be either a single executable (netx.exe) or a set of VLMs that are loaded on demand. In the IBM/Microsoft LAN Manager/SMB world, where the name DOS redirector is more common, there will be an NDIS interface driver and a net.exe executable.
  • double boiler — a utensil consisting of two pots, one of which fits partway into the other: water is boiled in the lower pot to cook or warm food or melt a substance in the upper.
  • double bridle — a bridle with four reins coming from a bit with two rings on each side
  • double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
  • double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • 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-figure — double-digit.
  • 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-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
  • draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
  • draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
  • dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
  • drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
  • dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
  • 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.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • 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.
  • durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
  • dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
  • endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
  • equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
  • equiponderate — To counterbalance.
  • eta reduction — eta conversion
  • european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
  • faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
  • ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
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