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11-letter words containing o, l, d, r, u

  • dexterously — skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body.
  • dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
  • dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
  • disclosures — Plural form of disclosure.
  • discolorous — (botany, of leaves) Having upper and lower surfaces of different colours.
  • discoloured — (British) alternative spelling of discolored.
  • divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
  • dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
  • double room — double (def 13).
  • double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • double-reed — of or relating to wind instruments producing sounds through two reeds fastened and beating together, as the oboe.
  • double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
  • doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
  • doubletrees — Plural form of doubletree.
  • douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
  • douroucouli — a small, nocturnal South American monkey of the genus Aotus, having large, owllike eyes: in danger of extinction.
  • drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
  • dual ported — A term used to describe memory integrated circuits which can be accessed simultaneously via two independent address and data busses. Dual ported memory is often used in video display hardware, especially in conjunction with Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). The two ports allow the video display hardware to read memory to display the contents on screen at the same time as the CPU writes data to other areas of the same memory. In single-ported memory these two processes cannot occur simultanteously, the CPU must wait, thus resulting in slower access times. Cycle stealing is one technique used to avoid this in single-ported video memory.
  • duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
  • dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
  • edulcorated — Simple past tense and past participle of edulcorate.
  • edulcorator — a device that supplies small quantities of a liquid to a mixture
  • elucidators — Plural form of elucidator.
  • elucidatory — Serving to elucidate.
  • enfouldered — charged with lightning
  • eurodollars — deposits of U.S. dollars in banks outside the U.S., especially in Europe
  • floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
  • floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
  • fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
  • fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
  • fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
  • fool around — a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
  • four-legged — having four legs.
  • fundholders — Plural form of fundholder.
  • glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
  • glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
  • golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
  • golden rule — a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.
  • ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
  • ground loop — a sharp horizontal loop performed, usually involuntarily, while touching the ground.
  • ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
  • ground plum — a prostrate milk vetch, Astragalus crassicarpus, of the legume family, growing in the prairie regions of North America.
  • ground rule — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
  • groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
  • groundlings — Plural form of groundling.
  • groundsills — Plural form of groundsill.
  • groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
  • guelderrose — snowball (sense 2)
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