11-letter words containing a, l, d, r
- desert palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
- desparingly — In a despairing manner.
- desperately — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
- destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
- desulfurate — to desulfurize.
- detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
- detribalize — to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their characteristic customs or social, religious, or other organizational features
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- dewar flask — a type of vacuum flask, esp one used in scientific experiments to keep liquid air, helium, etc; Thermos
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- dharmashala — (in South Asia) a building devoted to religious or charitable purposes, especially a rest house for travelers.
- diacritical — of or relating to a diacritic
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- dictatorial — Dictatorial means controlled or used by a dictator.
- die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- dietary law — law dealing with foods permitted to be eaten, food preparation and combinations, and the utensils and dishes coming into contact with food.
- digladiator — a person who contends or fights
- dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
- dilapidator — One who dilapidates, a person committing dilapidation.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
- dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
- dinner lady — female cook in school canteen
- dinnerplate — A plate on which dinner can be served.
- diode laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- direct-dial — being a telephone or telephone system enabling long-distance calls to be direct-dialed.
- directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
- dirlotapide — A drug used to treat obesity in dogs.
- disannuller — a person who disannuls
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- disarmingly — removing or capable of removing hostility, suspicion, etc., as by being charming: a disarming smile.
- disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- discardable — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discifloral — having flowers in which the receptacle is expanded into a conspicuous disk, as in composite plants.
- disclaimers — Plural form of disclaimer.
- discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
- discriminal — Involved in discrimination.
- disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disentrayle — to pass out as if from the entrails
- disgraceful — bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.
- dish aerial — a microwave aerial, used esp in radar, radio telescopes, and satellite broadcasting, consisting of a parabolic reflector
- disparately — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disregulate — Misspelling of dysregulate.