11-letter words containing a, d, e, r, s
- disparities — Plural form of disparity.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- dispensator — a person who dispenses; distributor; administrator.
- dispersants — Plural form of dispersant.
- displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disregarded — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- disregulate — Misspelling of dysregulate.
- disrelation — the absence of relation
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- distractive — tending to distract.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
- do a stroke — If someone does not do a stroke of work, they are very lazy and do no work at all.
- doc martens — a brand of lace-up boots with thick lightweight resistant soles
- doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- donner pass — a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada, in E California. 7135 feet (2175 meters) high.
- dorset naga — a British-grown variety of the Naga Jolokia chilli pepper, noted for its extreme heat
- dot address — An Internet address in dot notation.
- dot leaders — (text) A row of full stops intended to guide the reader's eye across the page from a column of variable length items on the left to the corresponding items in a column on the right. Used, for example, in the contents page of a book to tie a heading on the left to its page number on the right.
- 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)
- down-easter — a full-rigged ship built in New England in the late 19th century, usually of wood and relatively fast.
- downloaders — Plural form of downloader.
- draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- draize test — a test assessing the potential of drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and other commercial products to produce irritation, pain, or damage to the human eye by studying its effect on a rabbit's eye.
- drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
- dramaturges — Plural form of dramaturge.
- draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
- dreadlessly — in a dreadless manner
- dreamlessly — In a dreamless way; without dreams.
- dreamscapes — Plural form of dreamscape.
- dressmakers — Plural form of dressmaker.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drillmaster — a person who trains others in something, especially routinely or mechanically.
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- dromaeosaur — Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.
- dromedaries — Plural form of dromedary.
- drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
- dry measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring dry commodities, as grain or fruit. In the U.S. 2 pints = 1 quart (1.101 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (8.810 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (35.24 liters). In Great Britain 2 pints = 1 quart (1.136 liters); 4 quarts = 1 gallon (4.546 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (9.092 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (36.37 liters); 8 bushels = 1 quarter (291.0 liters).
- dry-cleanse — to dry-clean.
- dry-roasted — roasted with no oil, or less oil than is usually used in roasting, so that the product is drier, crisper, and less caloric: dry-roasted peanuts.
- duck's arse — a hairstyle in which the hair is swept back to a point at the nape of the neck, resembling a duck's tail
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- dunderheads — Plural form of dunderhead.
- dundrearies — an expression for long whiskers or side-burns on the side of the face when present without a beard