13-letter words containing t, u, d, e
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- double-bottom — tandem trailer (def 1).
- double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- double-dotted — (of a note) increased to one and three quarters of its original time value by the addition of two dots
- double-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
- double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
- doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
- down the tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- 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
- 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 heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dual-attached — The form of FDDI interface where a device is connected to both FDDI token-passing rings, so that uninterrupted operation continues in the event of a failure of either of the rings. All connections to the main FDDI rings are dual-attached. Typically, a small number of critical infrastructure devices such as routers and concentrators are dual-attached, whereas host computers are normally single-attached or dual-homed to a router or concentrator. For example, a ring could be formed between a single router and two concentrators (all dual-attached) then all other components that need to be fault-tolerant (typically file servers) can be dual-homed to both concentrators.
- 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.
- dumdum bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dumdum-bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dummy element — an otherwise empty element that stands in for and holds the position of another element in a sentence
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- dutch disease — the deindustrialization of an economy as a result of the discovery of a natural resource, as that which occurred in Holland with the exploitation of North Sea gas, which raised the value of the Dutch currency, making its exports uncompetitive and causing its industry to decline
- 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.
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
- ensanguinated — stained with blood
- equidifferent — equilateral; having differences that are equal
- equidistantly — In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree.
- equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
- equiponderate — To counterbalance.
- eta reduction — eta conversion
- eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
- eudicotyledon — any plant belonging to one of the two major groups of flowering plants, comprising over 60 per cent of all plants, normally having net-veined leaves and two cotyledons in the seed
- european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
- excise duties — the tax payable on certain goods, such as alcohol, cigarettes, fuel
- excludability — The ability to be excluded.
- exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
- expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
- exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
- extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
- extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.