11-letter words containing a, p, t, e
- decapsulate — to remove a capsule from (a part or organ, esp the kidney)
- decrepitate — to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
- deduplicate — to remove (duplicated material) from a system
- deep throat — an anonymous source of secret information
- deep-seated — A deep-seated problem, feeling, or belief is difficult to change because its causes have been there for a long time.
- delapidated — Misspelling of dilapidated.
- delipidated — Simple past tense and past participle of delipidate.
- dental lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- dental pulp — pulp (def 4).
- departement — an administrative department
- departments — Plural form of department.
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- depauperate — poor; impoverished
- dephlegmate — to remove watery substances from (acids or spirits) in order to purify
- deplanement — Disembarking from an aircraft.
- deploration — the act of deploring
- 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
- deportation — the act of expelling an alien from a country; expulsion
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- depravement — (archaic) Depravity; corruption.
- depravities — Plural form of depravity.
- deprecating — A deprecating attitude, gesture, or remark shows that you think that something is not very good, especially something associated with yourself.
- deprecation — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecative — serving to deprecate; deprecatory.
- deprecatory — expressing disapproval; protesting
- depreciated — Simple past tense and past participle of depreciate; reduced in value over time.
- depreciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depreciate.
- depreciator — One who depreciates.
- depredation — The depredations of a person, animal, or force are their harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something.
- depredatory — Tending or designed to depredate.
- depressants — Plural form of depressant.
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- deprivative — of, relating to, or causing deprivation
- deprivatize — (transitive) To strip the privacy from; to make public.
- deprotonate — (chemistry, ergative) To remove one or more protons from (a molecule).
- depth gauge — a device attached to a drill bit to prevent the hole from exceeding a predetermined depth
- deputations — Plural form of deputation.
- deputy head — a vice-principal
- dermapteran — any insect of the order Dermaptera, the earwigs
- dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- dermoplasty — skin grafting.
- dermopteran — flying lemur
- desert palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
- despatching — Present participle of despatch.
- desperately — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
- desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
- deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia