11-letter words containing u, d, i, n
- do business — trade
- dockominium — a dock or boat slip bought and sold as real property.
- 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
- 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)
- 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 chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
- doxorubicin — a cytotoxic antibiotic, C 27 H 29 NO 11 , derived from a variety of the bacterium Streptomyces peucetius and used in the treatment of sarcoma, malignant lymphoma, acute leukemia, and other cancers.
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
- druid stone — sarsen.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- du guesclin — Bertrand [ber-trahn] /bɛrˈtrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), ("the Eagle of Brittany") c1320–80, French military leader: constable of France 1370–80.
- du vigneaud — Vincent, 1901–78, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
- dualization — to make dual.
- dubiousness — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- duck typing — (programming) A term coined by Dave Thomas for a kind of dynamic typing typical of some programming languages, such as Smalltalk, Ruby or Visual FoxPro, where a variable's run-time value determines the operations that can be performed on it. The term comes from the "duck test": if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Duck typing considers the methods to which a value responds and the attributes it posesses rather than its relationship to a type hierarchy. This encourages greater polymorphism because types are enforced as late as possible.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dumfounding — Present participle of dumfound.
- dummy joint — a slot cut into a concrete slab to prevent serious fractures.
- dumpishness — the state of being downhearted and dejected
- duncanville — a town in N Texas.
- dundrearies — an expression for long whiskers or side-burns on the side of the face when present without a beard
- dunfermline — an administrative district in E Scotland, in the Fife region. 120 sq. mi. (311 sq. km).
- duniewassal — a gentleman, especially a cadet of a ranking family, among the Highlanders of Scotland.
- duplicating — Present participle of duplicate.
- duplication — an act or instance of duplicating.
- duplicident — (of certain animals, such as rabbits) having two pairs of incisors in the upper jaw
- dust kitten — a dust ball.
- dustbin man — (in British English) a man that is employed to collect domestic refuse
- dutifulness — The state of being dutiful.
- dysfunction — Medicine/Medical. malfunctioning, as of an organ or structure of the body.
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
- educational — pertaining to education.
- edutainment — television programs, movies, books, etc., that are both educational and entertaining, especially those intended primarily for children in the elementary grades.
- elucidating — Present participle of elucidate.
- elucidation — Explanation that makes something clear; clarification.
- endocardium — The thin, smooth membrane that lines the inside of the chambers of the heart and forms the surface of the valves.
- endocranium — (anatomy) The layer between the dura mater and the skull.
- endocuticle — the inner layer of the cuticle of an insect