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Douban printing
Douban (饾版) is a Chinese woodblock printing technique that divides an image into many small color blocks, developed in the late Ming dynasty behind the Shizhuzhai albums.
Doubanjiang (豆瓣酱)
Doubanjiang (豆瓣酱, toban djan), Chinese fermented broad bean or chili bean paste; Pixian douban of Chengdu is the GI-protected soul of Sichuan cuisine, base of mapo tofu and hotpot.
Double Album (NOFX album)
Double Album is NOFX's fifteenth studio album, released December 2, 2022 on Fat Wreck Chords. A 10-track companion to 2021's Single Album, it completes a planned double album, followed by Half Album in 2024.
Double bass
Double bass (contrabass, upright bass): largest, lowest-pitched bowed string instrument of the orchestra, tuned E1-A1-D2-G2 in fourths, gamba-derived hybrid body, roughly 180-200 cm tall, also central to jazz, bluegrass, blues, and tango.
Double Blind (film)
Double Blind is a 2023 Irish horror-thriller, Ian Hunt-Duffy's feature debut written by Darach McGarrigle, starring Millie Brady, Pollyanna McIntosh, and Akshay Kumar as drug-trial subjects who die if they sleep; released February 2024.
Double Dhamaal (डबल धमाल)
Double Dhamaal (डबल धमाल), also known as Dhamaal 2, is a 2011 Hindi Bollywood comedy directed by Indra Kumar, sequel to Dhamaal (2007), starring Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh, Jaaved Jaaferi, Mallika Sherawat, and Kangana Ranaut; released 24 June 2011.
Double Down (sandwich)
The KFC Double Down is a bunless sandwich of two fried chicken filets holding bacon, cheese, and sauce. Debuted 2010, over 10 million sold in the first month; returned 2014 and 2023 with international variants.
Double Down South
Double Down South is a 2024 American drama-thriller, also titled Southern Gothic, written and directed by Oscar winner Tom Schulman, starring Kim Coates and Lili Simmons in an illegal keno-pool gambling underworld in rural Georgia.
Double Dutchess
Double Dutchess is Fergie's second solo studio album, released September 22, 2017 on her Dutchess Music label through BMG, eleven years after The Dutchess; a visual album with videos for every track, peaking at No. 49 in the UK.
Double eagle
Double eagle: the United States $20 gold coin, minted 1849-1933 in Liberty Head (Longacre) and Saint-Gaudens designs; largest circulating US gold coin, famous for the 1933 rarity.
Double entendre
Double entendre: a word or phrase with two meanings, one usually risqué or sexual; a type of pun. From obsolete French, coined in English in the 1670s, attributed to Dryden's 1673 play Marriage a-la-Mode.
Double Fantasy
Double Fantasy (1980) is the final studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released by Geffen on November 17, 1980, recorded at the Hit Factory, and winner of the 1982 Grammy for Album of the Year.
Double harmonic scale
Double harmonic scale (double harmonic major, Byzantine scale, maqam Hijaz Kar): a seven-note scale, 1 ♭2 3 4 5 ♭6 7, with two augmented seconds, palindrome symmetry, and modes including the Hungarian minor.
Double Helix (双程) (TV series)
Double Helix (双程, Shuang Cheng, A Round Trip to Love) is a 2026 Chinese-Singaporean BL drama series adapted from Lan Lin's novel, starring Ayden Sng and Lu Sitong as reunited lovers Lu Feng and Cheng Yichen, 12 episodes on GagaOOLala, Viki, and Viu from May 8 to June 13, 2026.
Double Impact
Double Impact is a 1991 American action film directed by Sheldon Lettich, in which Jean-Claude Van Damme plays twins Alex and Chad Wagner, separated after their parents' murder in Hong Kong.
Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity: 1944 Billy Wilder film noir, also known by Cain's novella title, in which insurance salesman Walter Neff and Phyllis Dietrichson murder her husband for a double indemnity payout; seven Oscar nominations, no wins.
Double iSmart
Double iSmart (డబుల్ ఇస్మార్ట్) is a 2024 Telugu sci-fi action film, sequel to iSmart Shankar, directed by Puri Jagannadh, starring Ram Pothineni and Sanjay Dutt; released August 15, 2024, and a box-office failure.
Double Jeopardy (1999 film)
Double Jeopardy is a 1999 Bruce Beresford thriller starring Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones, a Paramount release about a framed woman who learns the double jeopardy doctrine; it grossed $177.8 million worldwide.
Double Life (Pharrell Williams song)
"Double Life" is a June 14, 2024 Columbia Records single by Pharrell Williams for the Despicable Me 4 soundtrack. It opens and closes the film's credits, asks "Who will Gru be tonight?", and peaked at UK No. 56 and Billboard Hot 100 No. 89.
Double Ninth Festival (重阳节)
Double Ninth Festival (重阳节, Chongyang jie, also Chongjiu, Climbing Heights Festival, Seniors' Festival): Chinese festival on the 9th day of the 9th lunar month, marked by climbing heights, chrysanthemum wine, dogwood, and Chongyang cake; a statutory Seniors' Festival since 2012 and national intangible cultural heritage since 2006.
Double Occupancy
Double Occupancy (டபுள் ஆக்யுபன்சி) is a 2026 Tamil fantasy romantic comedy directed by debutant Aswin Kandasamy, starring Santhosh and Reshma Venkatesh as Rajini, a man by night and woman by day, released 12 June 2026, certified UA 16+.
Double Team (film)
Double Team (1997) is a Tsui Hark action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman in his film debut, and Mickey Rourke; Columbia Pictures release about agent Jack Quinn rescuing his family from terrorist Stavros.
Double Teamed
Double Teamed is a 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie, premiered January 18, 2002, directed by Duwayne Dunham, dramatizing WNBA twins Heidi and Heather Burge's Palos Verdes High basketball years.
Double Vision (2002 film)
Double Vision (雙瞳) is a 2002 Taiwanese psychological thriller directed by Chen Kuo-fu, starring Tony Leung Ka-fai and David Morse as detectives hunting a Taoist cult behind serial murders in Taipei; the first Hollywood-backed film set in Taipei and 2002's top Taiwanese box-office hit.
Double Vision (Foreigner album)
Double Vision (1978) is the second studio album by British-American rock band Foreigner, released on Atlantic. Produced by Keith Olsen with Mick Jones and Ian McDonald, it reached number 3 on the Billboard 200 behind the singles Hot Blooded, Double Vision, and Blue Morning, Blue Day, and was the last album by the original six-member lineup.
Double XL
Double XL (डबल एक्सएल) is a 2022 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Satramm Ramani, starring Sonakshi Sinha and Huma Qureshi as plus-size women chasing dreams in London; released 4 November 2022, poorly reviewed, streamed on Netflix.
Double-headed serpent
The double-headed serpent is an Aztec or Mixtec turquoise mosaic pectoral made in Mexico between about 1400 and 1521, one of the best-known Mesoamerican objects in the British Museum.
Doublet (clothing)
The doublet is a close-fitting, padded men's jacket worn over a shirt from the 14th century to about 1670, originating as the pourpoint undergarment for armour; women's versions and an 1770 Spanish revival also existed.
Doubloon
Doubloon (Spanish doblón, "double escudo"): Spanish gold coin of the 16th-19th centuries, strictly the 2-escudo piece (~6.77 g, 22 karat) but in British colonial usage the 8-escudo onza; famous from pirate lore, the Brasher doubloon, and Moby-Dick.
Doubt (2008 film)
Doubt (2008 film), John Patrick Shanley's adaptation of his play Doubt: A Parable, stars Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis as a 1964 Bronx nun suspecting a priest; five Oscar nominations.