11-letter words containing a, d, u, l, t
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- deglutinate — to extract the gluten from (a cereal, esp wheat)
- degranulate — (of a cell) lose or release granules of a substance, typically as part of an immune reaction.
- delta blues — a style of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta, typically featuring slide guitar and harmonica
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- delusterant — a chemical agent, as titanium dioxide, used in reducing the sheen of a yarn or fabric.
- demodulated — Simple past tense and past participle of demodulate.
- demodulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demodulate.
- demodulator — a device used in demodulation
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- demutualise — If a building society or insurance company demutualises, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a limited company.
- demutualize — If a savings and loan association or an insurance company demutualizes, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a different kind of company.
- dental pulp — pulp (def 4).
- denticulate — very finely toothed
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depopulated — (of a place) reduced in population
- depopulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depopulate.
- depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
- deregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of deregulate.
- deregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deregulate.
- 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.
- desulfurate — to desulfurize.
- deutschland — Germany
- devaluating — Present participle of devaluate.
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
- diluvialist — a person who believes in the theory of diluvialism
- disculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of disculpate.
- dispatchful — of or relating to dispatch, particularly in terms of haste
- displuviate — (of the atrium of an ancient Roman house) having roofs sloping downward and outward from a central opening.
- disregulate — Misspelling of dysregulate.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- dissimulate — to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
- distasteful — unpleasant, offensive, or causing dislike: a distasteful chore.
- distractful — (archaic) distracting.
- 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.
- divulgation — to make publicly known; publish.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
- double date — two couples meeting socially
- double flat — a symbol () that lowers the pitch of the note following it by two semitones.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
- 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 take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- double-date — to take part in a double date.
- double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.