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11-letter words containing a, d, r, o

  • dispensator — a person who dispenses; distributor; administrator.
  • disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • disrelation — the absence of relation
  • disrotatory — (organic chemistry) Describing an electrocyclic reaction in which the substituents at the interacting termini of the conjugated system rotate in opposite senses.
  • distraction — the act of distracting.
  • distractors — Plural form of distractor.
  • dittography — reduplication of letters or syllables in writing, printing, etc., usually through error.
  • divaricator — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
  • diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
  • divisionary — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
  • divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
  • do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
  • do a runner — escape, run away
  • do a stroke — If someone does not do a stroke of work, they are very lazy and do no work at all.
  • doc martens — a brand of lace-up boots with thick lightweight resistant soles
  • doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
  • doctrinaire — a person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient regard for practical considerations; an impractical theorist.
  • doctrinally — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
  • documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • dog curtain — a flap on a canvas cover for a binnacle, affording a view of the compass when raised.
  • dog fancier — a person with a special interest in dogs
  • dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
  • dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
  • dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
  • dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
  • dolabriform — shaped like an ax or a cleaver.
  • doll's pram — toy: miniature baby carriage
  • dollar area — those countries among which trade is conducted in U.S. dollars or in freely convertible currencies.
  • dollar bill — a piece of paper money worth one dollar
  • dollar rate — a variable amount of foreign currency quoted against one unit of the US Dollar
  • dollar sign — the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.
  • domiciliary — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
  • donner pass — a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada, in E California. 7135 feet (2175 meters) high.
  • donor organ — an organ which has been voluntarily given for the use of another person
  • door charge — an entrance fee.
  • door handle — doorknob.
  • dorian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from D to D.
  • dorsal root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
  • dorset naga — a British-grown variety of the Naga Jolokia chilli pepper, noted for its extreme heat
  • dorsispinal — of or relating to the back and the spine.
  • dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
  • dot address — An Internet address in dot notation.
  • dot leaders — (text)   A row of full stops intended to guide the reader's eye across the page from a column of variable length items on the left to the corresponding items in a column on the right. Used, for example, in the contents page of a book to tie a heading on the left to its page number on the right.
  • dotted pair — (programming)   The usual LISP syntax for representing a cons cell that is not a list. For example, the expression (cons 'foo 42) returns a cons cell that is output as (foo . 42) which represents a cons cell whose car is the symbol "foo" and whose cdr is the integer 42.
  • double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
  • down-easter — a full-rigged ship built in New England in the late 19th century, usually of wood and relatively fast.
  • down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
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