11-letter words containing u, d, o
- non-dualism — the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two.
- non-ductile — capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable.
- non-student — a person who is not studying or enrolled at a school, university, etc
- nonauditory — not auditory, not related to hearing or its functions
- nonbuilding — Not being or pertaining to a building.
- noncoloured — not coloured
- noncompound — not compound
- noncomputed — Not computed.
- nondiscount — not subject to a discount
- nondisjunct — Not disjunct.
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- nongraduate — a person who is not a graduate of an educational institution
- nonhumanoid — Not humanoid.
- nonindustry — not related to a particular industry
- nonjudicial — Not resulting from a court ruling or judgment.
- nonreducing — that does not reduce
- north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- nose around — pry, snoop
- nostradamus — (Michel de Nostredame) 1503–66, French astrologer.
- nucleolated — containing a nucleolus or nucleoli.
- nucleotides — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- null method — a method of measurement using an electrical device, as a Wheatstone bridge, in which the quantity to be measured is balanced by an opposing known quantity that is varied until the resultant of the two is zero.
- octandrious — having eight stamens.
- odd man out — a method of selecting or eliminating a person from a group, as by matching coins, especially in preparation for playing a game.
- odious debt — sovereign debt incurred through activities which do not serve the best interests of the nation, esp when incurred by a despotic, tyrannical, or otherwise unjust and oppresive regime. Such debts are typically considered invalid and written off after the regime is deposed
- odoriferous — yielding or diffusing an odor.
- oedipus rex — a tragedy (c430 b.c.) by Sophocles.
- old country — the original home country of an immigrant or a person's ancestors, especially a European country.
- old russian — Russian as used in documents before 1600. Abbreviation: ORuss.
- olethreutid — any of numerous brown or gray moths of the family Olethreutidae having mottled or banded wings and forewings, each with a truncated tip, including many crop pests, as the codling moth or oriental fruit moth.
- ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- on schedule — with no delay
- open ground — uncovered or unobstructed ground in a wide open space
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
- order about — to bully or domineer
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
- otter hound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
- ouagadougou — a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 106,111 sq. mi. (274,827 sq. km). Capital: Ouagadougou.
- ouija board — board used by spiritualists
- out of date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- out-and-out — complete; total; thoroughgoing: an out-and-out lie.
- out-lodging — a lodging found outside an area
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- out-of-body — of, relating to, or characterized by the dissociative sensation of perceiving oneself from an external vantage point, as though the mind or soul has left the body and is acting on its own: an alleged out-of-body experience.
- out-of-date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out-of-door — Also, out-of-door. outdoor.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.