11-letter words containing a, b
- disavowable — capable of being disavowed
- disbandment — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
- disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- discardable — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discussable — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
- disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
- disenabling — Present participle of disenable.
- disguisable — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
- dislikeable — Alternative spelling of dislikable.
- dismissable — Capable of being dismissed.
- dispellable — to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
- dispensable — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
- dispensably — in a dispensable manner
- displayable — Capable of being displayed.
- disposables — Plural form of disposable.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- dissociable — capable of being dissociated; separable: Worthy and unworthy motives are often not dissociable.
- dissolvable — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- dissuadable — That can be dissuaded.
- dissyllable — disyllable.
- distillable — Capable of being distilled, especially capably of being distilled without chemical decomposition.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- disyllabism — the state of being disyllabic.
- disyllabize — to make disyllabic.
- disyllables — Plural form of disyllable.
- dithyrambic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a dithyramb, or an impassioned oration.
- diving boat — a boat used as a tender for divers or others working under water.
- do a job on — a piece of work, especially a specific task done as part of the routine of one's occupation or for an agreed price: She gave him the job of mowing the lawn.
- dobby weave — a weave with small, geometric patterns
- dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
- dolabriform — shaped like an ax or a cleaver.
- dollar bill — a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- douay bible — an English translation of the Bible, prepared by Roman Catholic scholars from the Vulgate. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament was published at Douai in 1609–10.
- double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double bass — the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played.
- 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 play — a play in which two putouts are made.
- 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.