11-letter words containing a, d, e, r, i
- dawn raider — a person or company that mounts a dawn raid
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
- daydreaming — indulgence in daydreams
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- dead firing — firing of a furnace or boiler at less than normal operating temperature in order to maintain conditions desirable during a period of idleness.
- dead ringer — a person or thing that closely resembles another; ringer: That old car is a dead ringer for the one we used to own.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- death chair — electric chair.
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- decameronic — resembling or having characteristics of the Decameron written by Boccaccio
- decapitator — One who decapitates.
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- decarburize — decarbonize
- decartelize — to break up (a cartel)
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
- decennaries — Plural form of decennary.
- declaration — A declaration is an official announcement or statement.
- declarative — making a statement or assertion
- declinatory — a plea that has the aim of demonstrating that the accused is exempt from legal authority and punishment
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- decorations — Plural form of decoration.
- decorticate — to remove the bark or some other outer layer from
- decrepitate — to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- dedramatize — to cause to be less dramatic
- defeaticrat — a member or supporter of the Democratic Party, echoing the belief among many opponents that it promoted a defeatist attitude to the situation in Iraq following the US-led invasion of 2003
- deferential — Someone who is deferential is polite and respectful towards someone else.
- defibrinate — to divest of fibrin or the protein formed in blood during clotting
- defloration — the act of deflowering
- deformalize — to make (something) less formal
- deformation — the act of deforming; distortion
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- degerminate — degerm (def 2).
- deglamorize — to make (a person or thing) less glamorous
- degradation — You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality.
- degradative — causing degradation
- degradingly — that degrades; debasing; humiliating: degrading submission.
- dehortation — an exhortation against a course of action
- dehydrating — Present participle of dehydrate.
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- deintegrate — (obsolete) To disintegrate.
- delavirdine — A non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used to treat HIV.
- 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.