11-letter words containing a, d, e, s
- desipramine — a tricyclic antidepressant drug
- desocialize — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- desolations — Plural form of desolation.
- desparingly — In a despairing manner.
- despatching — Present participle of despatch.
- desperadoes — Plural form of desperado.
- desperately — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
- desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
- desquamated — Simple past tense and past participle of desquamate.
- dessication — Misspelling of desiccation.
- 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.
- destalinize — (transitive) To free from the influence of w Joseph Stalin.
- destination — The destination of someone or something is the place to which they are going or being sent.
- 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.
- desulfurate — to desulfurize.
- detachments — Plural form of detachment.
- detasseling — Present participle of detassel.
- detestation — intense hatred; abhorrence
- detonations — Plural form of detonation.
- detractions — Plural form of detraction.
- detractress — a female detractor
- detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
- deutschland — Germany
- 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
- devastating — If you describe something as devastating, you are emphasizing that it is very harmful or damaging.
- devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
- devastators — Plural form of devastator.
- devitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devitalize.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- dewar flask — a type of vacuum flask, esp one used in scientific experiments to keep liquid air, helium, etc; Thermos
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diagnosable — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- diagonalise — Alternative spelling of diagonalize.
- dian fossey — Dian [dahy-an] /daɪˈæn/ (Show IPA), 1932–85, U.S. zoologist: expert on great apes.
- diaper rash — (in babies) any irritation to the skin around the genitals, anus, or buttocks, usually caused by contact with urine or excrement
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diapophyses — Plural form of diapophysis.
- diapositive — a positive transparency; slide
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diastematic — characterized by diastema
- diatessaron — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fourth
- dicasteries — Plural form of dicastery.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- die casting — the process of making a casting by forcing molten metal into a metallic mold, or die, under great pressure
- digestional — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- digger wasp — any of numerous solitary wasps of the family Sphecidae, which excavate nests in soil, wood, etc., and provision them with prey paralyzed by stinging.