12-letter words containing u, r, l
- desulfurized — Simple past tense and past participle of desulfurize.
- desulphurize — to free or become free from sulphur
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- discursively — In a discursive manner.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disgruntling — Present participle of disgruntle.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- distrustless — without suspicion or distrust
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- diuretically — In a diuretic way.
- diverticular — Of or relating to diverticula.
- diverticulum — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- djebel druze — Jebel ed Druz.
- dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
- doloriferous — causing pain or sadness, dolorific
- dolorousness — The quality of being dolorous.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- double doors — set of 2 doors side by side
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- 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 first — a first in two subjects.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- douglas hurd — a third-class university degree
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- drawbar pull — the force, measured in pounds, available to a locomotive for pulling rolling stock after overcoming its own tractive resistance.
- 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.
- drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.