11-letter words containing a, b, t, e, d
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- debilitated — in a severely weakened state
- debilitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debilitate.
- debut album — the first album produced by a particular singer or band
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
- decerebrate — to remove the brain or a large section of the brain or to cut the spinal cord at the level of the brain stem of (a person or animal)
- defatigable — (very, rare) Easily tired or wearied; capable of being fatigued.
- defibrinate — to divest of fibrin or the protein formed in blood during clotting
- deflectable — able to be deflected
- delectables — Plural form of delectable.
- deliberated — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deliberate.
- deliberator — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
- delightable — (obsolete) Delightful.
- delta blues — a style of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta, typically featuring slide guitar and harmonica
- demibastion — half a bastion, having only one flank, at right angles to the wall
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- deniability — the condition of being deniable
- dentil band — (in classical architecture) a molding occupying the position of a row of dentils and often cut to resemble one.
- dentolabial — (phonetics) articulated with the upper lip and lower teeth.
- destabilise — (transitive) To make something unstable.
- destabilize — To destabilize something such as a country or government means to create a situation which reduces its power or influence.
- destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
- desublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
- detribalize — to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their characteristic customs or social, religious, or other organizational features
- deverbative — a word formed or derived from a verb
- diabetology — (medicine) The study of the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
- dirt dauber — mud dauber.
- disablement — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disbandment — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- distillable — Capable of being distilled, especially capably of being distilled without chemical decomposition.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
- double date — two couples meeting socially
- double flat — a symbol () that lowers the pitch of the note following it by two semitones.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- double-date — to take part in a double date.