11-letter words containing c, i, d, a
- desecrating — Present participle of desecrate.
- desecration — a desecrating or being desecrated
- desiccating — Present participle of desiccate.
- desiccation — Desiccation is the process of becoming completely dried out.
- desiccative — Causing to desiccate, dry.
- desocialize — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- despatching — Present participle of despatch.
- dessication — Misspelling of desiccation.
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- detoxicated — Simple past tense and past participle of detoxicate.
- detractions — Plural form of detraction.
- devocalized — Simple past tense and past participle of devocalize.
- dexiocardia — dextrocardia.
- 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
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- dictational — the act or manner of dictating for reproduction in writing.
- dictatorial — Dictatorial means controlled or used by a dictator.
- dictionally — from a dictional point of view
- didacticism — intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
- die casting — the process of making a casting by forcing molten metal into a metallic mold, or die, under great pressure
- diffraction — the phenomenon exhibited by wave fronts that, passing the edge of an opaque body, are modulated, thereby causing a redistribution of energy within the front: it is detectable in light waves by the presence of a pattern of closely spaced dark and light bands (diffraction pattern) at the edge of a shadow.
- diffractive — causing or pertaining to diffraction.
- dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
- 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.
- dio cassius — ?155–?230 ad, Roman historian. His History of Rome covers the period of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- diplomacies — Plural form of diplomacy.