11-letter words containing u, d, o
- doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- doubletrees — Plural form of doubletree.
- doublewides — Plural form of doublewide.
- doubtlessly — without doubt; certainly; surely; unquestionably.
- douchecanoe — (vulgar, slang, pejorative) A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
- doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
- douglas bag — an airtight bag used to collect expired air for analysis of oxygen consumption.
- 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.
- douglas sbd — dauntless (def 2).
- douroucouli — a small, nocturnal South American monkey of the genus Aotus, having large, owllike eyes: in danger of extinction.
- dower house — the dwelling that is intended for or occupied by the widowed mother of the owner of an ancestral estate.
- downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
- 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.
- drag out of — to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dromaeosaur — Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.
- drop rudder — a rudder that can be lowered beneath the level of the bottom of a boat.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- drudge-work — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drug report — (humour) A bug report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack. Even worse than a chug report.
- drugged-out — being under the influence of drugs, especially a narcotic or an illicit drug.
- druid stone — sarsen.
- drum out of — to expel from (the army) with drums beating
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- drunkometer — a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a person's breath to determine the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.
- 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.
- dualization — to make dual.
- dubiousness — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- due process — established course of legal proceedings
- duffel coat — a hooded overcoat of sturdy wool, usually knee-length and with frog fasteners.
- duffle coat — a hooded overcoat of sturdy wool, usually knee-length and with frog fasteners.
- duke it out — (in Continental Europe) the male ruler of a duchy; the sovereign of a small state.
- dulcifluous — coursing or flowing in a dulcet or gentle manner
- dumbed down — (jargon) Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- dumfounding — Present participle of dumfound.
- dummy block — a freely moving cylinder for transmitting the pressure of a ram to a piece being extruded.
- dummy joint — a slot cut into a concrete slab to prevent serious fractures.
- duns scotus — John ("Doctor Subtilis") 1265?–1308, Scottish scholastic theologian.
- duo-decagon — dodecagon.
- duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
- duopolistic — Characteristic of a duopoly.
- duotheistic — Of or relating to duotheism.
- duplex lock — a lock capable of being opened either by a master key or a change key, each operating its own mechanism.
- duplication — an act or instance of duplicating.
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- duplicitous — marked or characterized by duplicity.