11-letter words containing b, e, m
- descrambled — Simple past tense and past participle of descramble.
- descrambler — unscrambler (def 2).
- 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.
- 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.
- disassemble — to take apart.
- disassembly — to take apart.
- disbandment — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
- disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
- disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
- disembedded — Simple past tense and past participle of disembed.
- disembitter — to remove (an attitude of) bitterness
- disembodied — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
- disembodies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembody.
- disembowels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembowel.
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disentombed — Simple past tense and past participle of disentomb.
- dismembered — Simple past tense and past participle of dismember.
- dismissable — Capable of being dismissed.
- dismissible — to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go: I dismissed the class early.
- disremember — to fail to remember; forget.
- disselbooms — Plural form of disselboom.
- dissembleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissemble.
- dissembling — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
- dive bomber — an airplane of the fighter-bomber type that drops its bombs while diving at the enemy.
- diytterbium — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two ytterbium atoms in a molecule.
- double demy — a size of printing paper, 22½ × 35 inches (57 × 89 cm).
- double dome — an intellectual; egghead.
- double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
- double room — double (def 13).
- double time — a doubled wage rate, paid for working on public holidays, etc
- double-dome — an intellectual; egghead.
- double-team — to defend against or block (an opposing player) by using two players, as in football or basketball: By double-teaming the end the safety men left the other receiver in the open.
- double-time — to cause to move in double time: Double-time the troops to the mess hall.
- dragon beam — dragging piece.
- drum-beater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- dumb barter — a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face.
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbed down — (jargon) Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- echo boomer — a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.
- embankments — Plural form of embankment.
- embarassing — Misspelling of embarrassing.
- embarcadero — (rare) A quay; a wharf.
- embarcation — Alternative form of embarkation.