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

  • distractful — (archaic) distracting.
  • distracting — Preventing concentration or diverting attention; disturbing.
  • distraction — the act of distracting.
  • distractive — tending to distract.
  • distractors — Plural form of distractor.
  • distraining — Present participle of distrain.
  • disturbance — the act of disturbing.
  • dithyrambic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a dithyramb, or an impassioned oration.
  • dittography — reduplication of letters or syllables in writing, printing, etc., usually through error.
  • divaricated — Spread-out, divergent, especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem.
  • divaricator — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
  • diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
  • divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
  • 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-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.
  • dollar rate — a variable amount of foreign currency quoted against one unit of the US Dollar
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
  • downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
  • downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
  • draft board — a board of civilians charged with registering, classifying, and selecting persons for U.S. military service.
  • draft chair — a chair so designed as to fend off drafts from behind, as a wing chair.
  • draftsmanly — Befitting a draftsman; geometrically artistic.
  • draftswoman — a woman employed in making mechanical drawings.
  • draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
  • drag artist — an entertainer who wears drag
  • drag out of — to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force
  • dragon tree — a tall, treelike plant, Dracaena draco, of the Canary Islands, scarce in the wild but common in cultivation, yielding a variety of dragon's blood.
  • draize test — a test assessing the potential of drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and other commercial products to produce irritation, pain, or damage to the human eye by studying its effect on a rabbit's eye.
  • dramaticism — a dramatic character or way of behaving
  • dramatising — Present participle of dramatise.
  • dramatizing — Present participle of dramatize.
  • dramaturges — Plural form of dramaturge.
  • dramaturgic — Of or relating to the art of dramatic composition for the stage.
  • drapability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
  • drastically — acting with force or violence; violent.
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