11-letter words containing a, d, m
- desert palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- desipramine — a tricyclic antidepressant drug
- desquamated — Simple past tense and past participle of desquamate.
- 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.
- detachments — Plural form of detachment.
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- determinant — A determinant of something causes it to be of a particular kind or to happen in a particular way.
- determinate — Determinate means fixed and definite.
- detrainment — The act of detraining.
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- deuterogamy — a marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse
- 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
- dharmashala — (in South Asia) a building devoted to religious or charitable purposes, especially a rest house for travelers.
- 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
- diagramming — a figure, usually consisting of a line drawing, made to accompany and illustrate a geometrical theorem, mathematical demonstration, etc.
- diamagnetic — of, exhibiting, or concerned with diamagnetism
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- diamond bar — a city in SW California.
- diamondback — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
- diamondized — Simple past tense and past participle of diamondize.
- diamorphine — heroin.
- diaphragmic — Which uses, or which is located in or near, the diaphragm.
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- diastematic — characterized by diastema
- diatonicism — the use of diatonic harmony; composition in a diatonic idiom.
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
- didacticism — intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- diluvialism — the theory, generally abandoned in the mid-19th century, that the earth's surface was shaped by the biblical flood
- dimensional — Of or pertaining to dimensions.
- dimentional — Misspelling of dimensional.
- 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.
- dimidiating — Present participle of dimidiate.
- diplomacies — Plural form of diplomacy.
- diplomatese — the type of language or jargon used by diplomats, thought to be excessively complicated, cautious, or vague
- diplomatics — the science of deciphering old official documents, as charters, and of determining their authenticity, age, or the like.
- diplomatist — British Older Use. a Foreign Office employee officially engaged as a diplomat.
- diplomatize — to use diplomacy or tact.
- dipsomaniac — a person with an irresistible craving for alcoholic drink.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- dirt farmer — a farmer who works on the soil, distinguished from one who operates a farm with hired hands or tenants.
- disablement — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.
- disarmament — the act or an instance of disarming.
- disarmingly — removing or capable of removing hostility, suspicion, etc., as by being charming: a disarming smile.
- disassemble — to take apart.
- disassembly — to take apart.