11-letter words containing a, d, u, r, e
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- day nursery — A day nursery is a place where children who are too young to go to school can be left all day while their parents are at work.
- day surgery — a system in which a patient comes into hospital for a surgical procedure, has the operation, recovers and is released from hospital in the course of a single day
- day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- 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.
- decarburize — decarbonize
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- deculturate — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- degranulate — (of a cell) lose or release granules of a substance, typically as part of an immune reaction.
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- delusionary — having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions: Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
- delusterant — a chemical agent, as titanium dioxide, used in reducing the sheen of a yarn or fabric.
- demagoguery — the methods, practices, or rhetoric of a demagogue
- demodulator — a device used in demodulation
- demy quarto — a book size, 113⁄4 by 85⁄8 inches
- denaturated — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturate.
- denaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturize.
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- depauperate — poor; impoverished
- depauperize — to make (a person) poor
- depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
- derailleurs — Plural form of derailleur.
- deregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of deregulate.
- deregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deregulate.
- desaturated — (of a color) formed by mixing a color of the spectrum with white.
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- desulfurate — to desulfurize.
- deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
- deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
- deuterogamy — a marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- dirt dauber — mud dauber.
- disannuller — a person who disannuls
- disasterous — Misspelling of disastrous.