11-letter words containing a, d, i, n
- downscaling — Present participle of downscale.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drainageway — a conduit, ditch, or the like, for draining water from an area.
- drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
- dramatising — Present participle of dramatise.
- dramatizing — Present participle of dramatize.
- draw a line — If you draw a line between two things, you make a distinction between them.
- drawing pen — a pen with a fine nib used for drawing
- drawing pin — a thumbtack.
- drawstrings — Plural form of drawstring.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive train — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.
- drop a line — send a message
- drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- dry farming — a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage
- dry martini — cocktail
- du vigneaud — Vincent, 1901–78, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
- dualization — to make dual.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- duncanville — a town in N Texas.
- dundrearies — an expression for long whiskers or side-burns on the side of the face when present without a beard
- duniewassal — a gentleman, especially a cadet of a ranking family, among the Highlanders of Scotland.
- duplicating — Present participle of duplicate.
- duplication — an act or instance of duplicating.
- dustbin man — (in British English) a man that is employed to collect domestic refuse
- dynamic ram — dynamic random-access memory
- dynamically — Of a dynamic nature; variable or constantly changing nature.
- dynasticism — a system of government in which the rulers are all drawn from the same family
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- dyssynergia — (medicine) Failure of parts of the anatomy to work together correctly.
- dysthanasia — (medicine, rare) The undue prolongation of life by artificial means in a person who cannot otherwise survive.
- east indian — Indonesian: of the East Indies
- east indies — Indonesia
- east riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in NE England, now part of Humberside.
- edi analyst — (job) A person who introduces EDI standards and technology. An EDI analyst makes decisions for information construction and selects resources for EDI processing and application expansion. He coordinates processing and transmission schedules and mapping of standard data formats. He generally serves as a key contact for trading partners and value-added network consultants.
- edification — an act of edifying.
- educational — pertaining to education.
- edutainment — television programs, movies, books, etc., that are both educational and entertaining, especially those intended primarily for children in the elementary grades.
- effeminated — (of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy.
- eicosanoids — Plural form of eicosanoid.
- eisenstaedt — Alfred. 1898–1995, US photographer, born in Germany; noted for his photograph of a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square, New York on V-J Day in 1945
- elucidating — Present participle of elucidate.
- elucidation — Explanation that makes something clear; clarification.
- emancipated — Free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberated.
- emarginated — (botany) Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.