11-letter words containing u, d, o
- knocked out — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- krugersdorp — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa, NW of Johannesburg.
- labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- langue d'oc — the Romance language of medieval southern France: developed into modern Provençal.
- lark around — If you lark around or lark about, you behave in a playful, childish, and silly way, often in order to make people laugh.
- laundromats — Plural form of laundromat.
- laze around — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- leflunomide — An inhibitor of pyrimidine synthesis, used to treat some forms of arthritis.
- lenat, doug — Doug Lenat
- leucodermia — leucoderma
- liquid gold — a suspension of finely divided gold in a vegetable oil, used chiefly for gilding ceramic ware.
- liquid load — A liquid load is a liquid which is going into or coming out of a distillation stage.
- liquidation — the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- lithodomous — living in rock or stone
- load module — a program or combination of programs in a form ready to be loaded into main storage and executed: generally the output from a linkage editor.
- load-lugger — a motor vehicle that is capable of carrying a load rather than, or as well as, passengers
- loculicidal — (of a capsule) splitting lengthwise so as to divide each locule into two parts.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- loll around — If you loll around or loll about, you enjoy yourself by sitting or lying in a relaxed way.
- londonesque — resembling or characteristic of London, England.
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- longicaudal — having a long tail; macrutous.
- look around — examine surrounding area
- lose ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- loudmouthed — loud, gossipy, or indiscreet; vociferous.
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- ludicrously — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lycopodiums — Plural form of lycopodium.
- lymphonodus — (anatomy) lymph node.
- macropodous — (of a leaf) having a long stalk.
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- malodourous — Alternative form of malodorous.
- manducation — The act of eating.
- manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- manoeuvered — Simple past tense and past participle of manoeuver.
- manuduction — the act of directing or guiding.
- maquiladora — a factory run by a U.S. company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation.
- media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
- medium shot — a camera shot in which the subject is in the middle distance, permitting some of the background to be seen. Compare closeup (def 2), long shot (def 3).
- medullation — the formation of a medullary sheath about a nerve fiber.
- melodiously — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
- memorandums — Plural form of memorandum.
- memory dump — (programming, operating system, jargon) (Or "core dump") A file on hard disk (traditionally called "core") containing a copy of the contents of a process's memory, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error or signal.