11-letter words containing a, c, d, e, m
- dance drama — drama performed through dance movements, frequently with dialogue.
- dance music — music that is suitable for dancing
- dark comedy — a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
- death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- decameronic — resembling or having characteristics of the Decameron written by Boccaccio
- deccan hemp — kenaf.
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
- decimalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decimalize.
- decimalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimalize.
- decimations — Plural form of decimation.
- declamation — a rhetorical or emotional speech, made esp in order to protest or condemn; tirade
- declamatory — A declamatory phrase, statement, or way of speaking is dramatic and confident.
- declarement — (obsolete) declaration.
- decremental — relating to a small amount that is taken away
- demagogical — Demagogic.
- demarcating — Present participle of demarcate.
- demarcation — Demarcation is the establishment of boundaries or limits separating two areas, groups, or things.
- demarcative — (of a phonological feature) serving to indicate the beginning or end of each successive word in an utterance, as word-initial stress in Hungarian or penultimate stress in Polish.
- demi-cannon — a large cannon of the 16th century, having a bore of about 6½ inches (17 cm) and firing a shot of from 30 to 36 pounds (14 to 16 kg).
- democracies — Plural form of democracy.
- democratise — To make democratic.
- democratism — The principles or spirit of a democracy.
- democratize — If a country or a system is democratized, it is made democratic.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- demoniacism — the state or practice of being possessed by a demon
- demonically — In a demonic way.
- demonocracy — power of or rule by demons
- demy octavo — a book size, 81⁄2 by 51⁄2 inches
- dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- descamisado — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- descrambled — Simple past tense and past participle of descramble.
- descrambler — unscrambler (def 2).
- detachments — Plural form of detachment.
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- diamagnetic — of, exhibiting, or concerned with diamagnetism
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- diastematic — characterized by diastema
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
- diplomacies — Plural form of diplomacy.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- disc camera — a camera that accepts a film cartridge in the form of a rotatable disc with film frames mounted around the outer edge.
- discardment — the act or process of discarding
- disclaimers — Plural form of disclaimer.
- doc martens — a brand of lace-up boots with thick lightweight resistant soles
- dockmackies — Plural form of dockmackie.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- domesticate — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.