13-letter words containing u, s, r, d
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
- disreputation — disrepute.
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distributions — Plural form of distribution.
- distributives — Plural form of distributive.
- distrustfully — In a distrustful manner.
- distrustingly — In a distrusting manner.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- dos requester — (networking) An MS-DOS client that provides transparent redirection of printing and file accesses to a network server. It handles levels 3, 4 and 5 of the Open Systems Interconnect seven layer model. A DOS requester under Novell NetWare will interface to a network card driver with an ODI interface, and will be either a single executable (netx.exe) or a set of VLMs that are loaded on demand. In the IBM/Microsoft LAN Manager/SMB world, where the name DOS redirector is more common, there will be an NDIS interface driver and a net.exe executable.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
- dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
- driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
- dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
- drug smuggler — trafficker in illegal substances
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
- dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
- dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- durable press — permanent press.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
- easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
- eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
- ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
- figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
- film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
- food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.