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

  • dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
  • dap fortran — ["Efficient High Speed Computing with the Distributed Array Processor", P.M. Flanders et al, pp.113-127 (1977)].
  • dark matter — Dark matter is material that is believed to form a large part of the universe, but which has never been seen.
  • darwinistic — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
  • dastardized — Simple past tense and past participle of dastardize.
  • dastardness — the sate or quality of being a dastard
  • data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
  • data logger — data logging
  • dawn patrol — a flight, especially during the early days of military aviation, undertaken at dawn or early morning in order to reconnoiter enemy positions.
  • day of rest — the Sabbath; Sunday
  • day trading — the practice of buying and selling shares on the same day, often via the internet, in order to make a quick profit
  • day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
  • day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
  • de la renta — Oscar, 1932–2014, U.S. fashion designer, born in the Dominican Republic.
  • deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
  • dead center — the position of maximum (top dead center) or minimum (bottom dead center) extension of a crank and a connecting rod, in which both are in the same straight line
  • dead centre — the exact top (top dead centre) or bottom (bottom dead centre) of the piston stroke in a reciprocating engine or pump
  • dead letter — If you say that a law or agreement is a dead letter, you mean that it still exists but people ignore it.
  • dead matter — type that has already been used or is not going to be used
  • dead-stroke — relating to a stroke made that has no kickback or reverberation
  • deallocator — One who, or that which, deallocates.
  • dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
  • death adder — a venomous Australian elapid snake, Acanthophis antarcticus, resembling an adder
  • death chair — electric chair.
  • death grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a grant payable to a relative, executor, etc, after the death of a person
  • death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
  • deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
  • deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
  • debarkation — Disembarkation.
  • decahydrate — a hydrate that contains ten molecules of water, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
  • decapitator — One who decapitates.
  • decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
  • decartelize — to break up (a cartel)
  • decelerated — Simple past tense and past participle of decelerate.
  • decelerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decelerate.
  • decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
  • decerebrate — to remove the brain or a large section of the brain or to cut the spinal cord at the level of the brain stem of (a person or animal)
  • declamatory — A declamatory phrase, statement, or way of speaking is dramatic and confident.
  • declaration — A declaration is an official announcement or statement.
  • declarative — making a statement or assertion
  • declarators — Plural form of declarator.
  • declaratory — (of a statute) stating the existing law on a particular subject; explanatory
  • declarement — (obsolete) declaration.
  • declinatory — a plea that has the aim of demonstrating that the accused is exempt from legal authority and punishment
  • declinature — the act of refusing politely
  • decolorants — Plural form of decolorant.
  • decorations — Plural form of decoration.
  • decorrelate — To reduce the correlation between signals.
  • decorticate — to remove the bark or some other outer layer from
  • decremental — relating to a small amount that is taken away
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