12-letter words containing u, n, d, l
- dilucidation — elucidation
- diminutively — In a diminutive manner.
- dinucleotide — a molecule composed of two nucleotide subunits.
- disanalogous — not analogous
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- discussional — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- disdainfully — full of or showing disdain; scornful.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disgruntling — Present participle of disgruntle.
- disgustingly — causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- disillusions — Plural form of disillusion.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- dissolutions — Plural form of dissolution.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dolorousness — The quality of being dolorous.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- donald knuth — (person) Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- double ender — a double-ended vessel.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
- double-ended — having the two ends alike.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- drilling mud — a water-based or oil-based suspension of clays pumped into an oil well during drilling in order to seal off porous rock layers, equalize the pressure, cool the bit, and flush out the cuttings.
- dry puddling — puddling in a furnace with a bottom of sand.
- dual citizen — a person who is a citizen or subject of two or more nations; one having dual citizenship.
- dual in-line — (hardware) Dual In-Line Package.
- dual-control — having dual controls
- ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- duodecennial — relating to twelve years
- duodecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 39 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 72 zeros.
- duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.