11-letter words containing a, m, e
- dephlegmate — to remove watery substances from (acids or spirits) in order to purify
- deplanement — Disembarking from an aircraft.
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depravement — (archaic) Depravity; corruption.
- deprogramme — to free (someone) from the effects of indoctrination, esp by a religious cult or political group
- derailments — Plural form of derailment.
- derangement — Derangement is the state of being mentally ill and unable to think or act in a controlled way.
- dermapteran — any insect of the order Dermaptera, the earwigs
- dermatology — the branch of medicine concerned with the skin and its diseases
- dermatozoon — any microscopic animal or protozoan living as a parasite on or in the skin of the host.
- dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- dermography — a type of marking on the skin, whether in the form of writing or pictures, supposedly of psychic origin, similar to stigmata except for being more short-lived
- dermoplasty — skin grafting.
- dermopteran — flying lemur
- désagrément — something disagreeable
- descamisado — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- descrambled — Simple past tense and past participle of descramble.
- descrambler — unscrambler (def 2).
- desert palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- desipramine — a tricyclic antidepressant drug
- desquamated — Simple past tense and past participle of desquamate.
- 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.
- detachments — Plural form of detachment.
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- determinant — A determinant of something causes it to be of a particular kind or to happen in a particular way.
- determinate — Determinate means fixed and definite.
- detrainment — The act of detraining.
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- 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
- diamagnetic — of, exhibiting, or concerned with diamagnetism
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- diamondized — Simple past tense and past participle of diamondize.
- diamorphine — heroin.
- diastematic — characterized by diastema
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- dimensional — Of or pertaining to dimensions.
- dimentional — Misspelling of dimensional.
- 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.
- diplomacies — Plural form of diplomacy.
- diplomatese — the type of language or jargon used by diplomats, thought to be excessively complicated, cautious, or vague
- diplomatize — to use diplomacy or tact.
- 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.
- dirt farmer — a farmer who works on the soil, distinguished from one who operates a farm with hired hands or tenants.
- disablement — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disarmament — the act or an instance of disarming.
- disassemble — to take apart.
- disassembly — to take apart.