13-letter words containing a, d, r, e
- decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
- decentralized — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
- decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
- decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
- decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
- dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- deconcentrate — to make or become less concentrated
- deconsecrated — (of a church) having been transferred to secular use
- deconsecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconsecrate.
- decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
- decortication — the act or process of decorticating.
- decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
- decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
- decriminalize — When a criminal offence is decriminalized, the law changes so that it is no longer a criminal offence.
- deculturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
- defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
- defamiliarize — to make (something well-known or well-established) seem unfamiliar, strange, disconcerting, etc., as in order to reinterpret or subvert it
- default route — (networking) A routing table entry which is used to direct packets addressed to hosts or networks not explicitly listed in the routing table.
- defenestrated — Simple past tense and past participle of defenestrate.
- defenestrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defenestrate.
- deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
- defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- defragmenting — Present participle of defragment.
- degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
- degradational — (geology) Pertaining to or formed by degradation.
- degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
- dehydrogenase — an enzyme, such as any of the respiratory enzymes, that activates oxidation-reduction reactions by transferring hydrogen from substrate to acceptor
- dehydrogenate — to remove hydrogen from
- deintegration — an act or instance of integrating a racial, religious, or ethnic group.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
- demand driven — A demand driven architecture/language performs computations when the result is required by some other computation. E.g. Imperial College's ALICE running HOPE. See also data flow, lazy evaluation, reduction.
- demanufacture — A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
- dematerialise — Alternative spelling of dematerialize.
- dematerialize — to cease to have material existence, as in science fiction or spiritualism
- demilitarized — Declared free of all military activity.
- demilitarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demilitarize.
- demineralized — From which all minerals have been removed.
- demineralizer — a substance or device that causes demineralization