11-letter words containing c, d
- detectivist — a person who holds the philosophical theory of detectivism
- detectorist — a person whose hobby is using a metal detector
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- detoxicated — Simple past tense and past participle of detoxicate.
- detractions — Plural form of detraction.
- detractress — a female detractor
- detumescent — characterized by detumescence
- deuce court — the receiver's right-hand service court, into which the ball is served when the score is deuce.
- deuces wild — a variety or method of playing certain poker and other games in which a deuce represents any suit or denomination that the holder chooses: We're playing five-card stud, deuces wild.
- deutschland — Germany
- 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
- devocalized — Simple past tense and past participle of devocalize.
- dexiocardia — dextrocardia.
- dexiotropic — (of cleavage) spiral; twisting in a spiral fashion from left to right
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diacoustics — the branch of physics that deals with refracted sound
- diacritical — of or relating to a diacritic
- diagnostics — the art or practice of diagnosis, esp of diseases
- dialectally — in a dialectal manner
- dialectical — In philosophy, Dialectical is used to describe situations, theories, and methods which depend on resolving opposing factors.
- dialkylzinc — (organic chemistry) Any organometallic compound of zinc containing two alkyl groups.
- dialogistic — a speaker in a dialogue.
- diamagnetic — of, exhibiting, or concerned with diamagnetism
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- diamondback — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
- diaphonical — Diacoustic; diaphonic.
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diaphragmic — Which uses, or which is located in or near, the diaphragm.
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- diastematic — characterized by diastema
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- diatonicism — the use of diatonic harmony; composition in a diatonic idiom.
- dicasteries — Plural form of dicastery.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichlobenil — a nonselective preemergence herbicide, C 7 H 3 Cl 2 N, used primarily as a weed and grass killer.
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomist — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomize — to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- dickcissels — Plural form of dickcissel.
- dicotyledon — any flowering plant of the class Dicotyledonae, normally having two embryonic seed leaves and leaves with netlike veins. The group includes many herbaceous plants and most families of trees and shrubs
- dictational — the act or manner of dictating for reproduction in writing.