10-letter words starting with do
- dot-commer — a company doing business mostly or solely on the Internet.
- dot-matrix — using matrix dots
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double bar — a double vertical line on a staff indicating the conclusion of a piece of music or a subdivision of it.
- double bed — a bed large enough for two adults, especially a bed measuring 54 inches (137 cm) wide; full-size bed.
- double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double day — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
- double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- doubleness — the quality or condition of being double.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- doubtfully — of uncertain outcome or result.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- douchiness — (slang, derogatory) The quality of being douchey or douchy; objectionableness.
- doug lenat — (person) One of the world's leading computer scientists specialising in Artificial Intelligence. He is currently (1999) head of the Cyc Project at MCC, and President of Cycorp. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University. See also microLenat.
- dough bird — the Eskimo curlew.
- dough hook — an attachment for a food processor or electric mixer, for kneading dough.
- dough-hook — an attachment for an electric mixer that kneads dough
- doughbelly — stoneroller (def 1).
- doughfaced — over-persuadable
- doughiness — the quality or characteristic of being like dough
- doughtiest — Superlative form of doughty.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- doulocracy — Government by slaves.
- dove color — warm gray with a slight purplish or pinkish tint.
- dove prion — a common petrel, Pachyptila desolata, of the southern seas, having a bluish back and white underparts
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- dover sole — another name for the European sole
- dovetailed — noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.
- dovishness — The quality of being a dove (as opposed to a hawk).
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- down under — Australia or New Zealand.
- down-cycle — business: move downward
- down-river — Something that is moving down-river is moving towards the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is down-river is towards the mouth of a river.
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- downcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of downcast.
- downcomers — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- downdrafts — Plural form of downdraft.
- downfallen — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.