11-letter words containing a, d, i, r, o
- 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.
- derivations — Plural form of derivation.
- dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- derogations — Plural form of derogation.
- desalinator — an apparatus used in the process of desalination
- desecration — a desecrating or being desecrated
- designators — Plural form of designator.
- designatory — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
- deteriorate — If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
- detractions — Plural form of detraction.
- deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
- dexiocardia — dextrocardia.
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diamond bar — a city in SW California.
- diamorphine — heroin.
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- 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.
- diatessaron — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fourth
- 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.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- dictatorial — Dictatorial means controlled or used by a dictator.
- diffraction — the phenomenon exhibited by wave fronts that, passing the edge of an opaque body, are modulated, thereby causing a redistribution of energy within the front: it is detectable in light waves by the presence of a pattern of closely spaced dark and light bands (diffraction pattern) at the edge of a shadow.
- digladiator — a person who contends or fights
- dilapidator — One who dilapidates, a person committing dilapidation.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
- 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.
- dinosaurian — pertaining to or of the nature of a dinosaur.
- diode laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
- dipterocarp — A tall forest tree from which are obtained resins and timber for the export trade, occurring mainly in Southeast Asia.
- directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directorate — the office of a director.
- directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
- dirlotapide — A drug used to treat obesity in dogs.
- dis-favored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disaccorded — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccord.
- disafforest — To deforest.
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- disapproved — Simple past tense and past participle of disapprove.