11-letter words containing a, d, i, p, r
- cider-apple — a variety of apple suitable for use in cider-making
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- coon rapids — a city in E Minnesota.
- crab spider — any of a family (Thomisidae) of spiders that move sideways like crabs
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- decapitator — One who decapitates.
- decrepitate — to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- depauperize — to make (a person) poor
- deploration — the act of deploring
- depolarized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolarize.
- depolarizer — a substance added to the electrolyte of an electric cell or battery to remove gas collected at the electrodes.
- deportation — the act of expelling an alien from a country; expulsion
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- depravingly — in a depraving manner
- depravities — Plural form of depravity.
- deprecating — A deprecating attitude, gesture, or remark shows that you think that something is not very good, especially something associated with yourself.
- deprecation — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecative — serving to deprecate; deprecatory.
- depreciable — able to be depreciated for tax deduction
- depreciated — Simple past tense and past participle of depreciate; reduced in value over time.
- depreciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depreciate.
- depreciator — One who depreciates.
- depredation — The depredations of a person, animal, or force are their harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something.
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- deprivative — of, relating to, or causing deprivation
- deprivatize — (transitive) To strip the privacy from; to make public.
- dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- desipramine — a tricyclic antidepressant drug
- desparingly — In a despairing manner.
- desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
- diamorphine — heroin.
- 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
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diaphragmic — Which uses, or which is located in or near, the diaphragm.
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- diazo group — the bivalent group –N=N– united with one hydrocarbon group and another atom or group, as in benzenediazo hydroxide, C 6 H 5 N=NOH, or the bivalent group =N=N united with one hydrocarbon group, as in diazomethane, CH 2 =N=N.
- 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.
- dilapidator — One who dilapidates, a person committing dilapidation.
- 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.
- dinnerplate — A plate on which dinner can be served.
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.