11-letter words containing c, e, d
- dog fancier — a person with a special interest in dogs
- dog licence — a special license which permits the holder to be the keeper of a dog
- dog officer — dogcatcher.
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- dole office — an informal term for a job centre
- domenichino — (Domenico Zampieri (Le Dominiquin)) 1581–1641, Italian painter.
- domesticate — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domesticity — the state of being domestic; domestic or home life.
- domesticize — To make domestic; domesticate.
- domiciliate — to domicile.
- donkey-lick — to defeat decisively
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- donut peach — fruit
- doodle-sack — bagpipe (def 1).
- doodlesacks — Plural form of doodlesack.
- door charge — an entrance fee.
- doorknocker — A knocker mounted on a door.
- dope addict — Slang. a drug addict.
- dot etching — a method of making corrections in halftone positives or negatives by using chemicals to reduce the size of halftone dots.
- double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
- double lock — a spring lock that can also serve as a deadbolt by an extra turn of the key
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- double-deck — Also, double-decked. having two decks, tiers, or levels: a double-deck bunk; a double-deck bus.
- double-lock — to lock with two turns of a key, so that a second bolt is engaged.
- doublecheck — Alternative form of double-check.
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- douchecanoe — (vulgar, slang, pejorative) A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- down ticket — relating to or noting a candidate or political contest that is relatively low-profile and local compared to one listed in a higher place on the ballot: Very popular presidential nominees often cause down-ballot candidates to win.
- doxycycline — a synthetic analog of a broad-spectrum antibiotic tetracycline drug, C 22 H 24 N 2 O 8 , used against a wide range of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.
- dreadlocked — Wearing dreadlocks.
- dreamscapes — Plural form of dreamscape.
- drip coffee — a beverage prepared in a vessel in which boiling water filters from a top compartment through the coffee into a pot below.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive screw — a fastener with a helical thread of coarse pitch that can be driven into wood with a hammer and removed with a screwdriver.
- drop cookie — a cookie made by dropping batter from a spoon onto a cookie sheet for baking.
- druckenness — the state of being drunk
- dry cleaner — a business that dry-cleans garments, draperies, etc.
- dry-cleanse — to dry-clean.
- dry-dockage — the act or fact of placing a ship in a dry dock.
- du guesclin — Bertrand [ber-trahn] /bɛrˈtrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), ("the Eagle of Brittany") c1320–80, French military leader: constable of France 1370–80.
- duces tecum — subpoena duces tecum.
- duck plague — an acute, highly fatal disease of ducks caused by a herpesvirus
- duck's arse — a hairstyle in which the hair is swept back to a point at the nape of the neck, resembling a duck's tail
- duck-legged — having legs that are unusually short: He crept up in a half-crouch that made him look duck-legged.
- due process — established course of legal proceedings
- duffel coat — a hooded overcoat of sturdy wool, usually knee-length and with frog fasteners.