13-letter words containing t, r, u, d
- 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.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
- dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- 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.
- driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
- 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.
- 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 heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
- eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
- edmund gunter — Edmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
- endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
- equidifferent — equilateral; having differences that are equal
- 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
- extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
- extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
- 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.
- film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- 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.
- forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
- fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
- foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
- function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
- general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
- get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
- goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
- grand quarter — a quartered coat of arms, itself one of the quarters of a coat of arms.