11-letter words containing c, l, e
- dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
- desacralize — to render less sacred; to secularize
- descendible — capable of being inherited
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- descloizite — a mineral, lead zinc vanadate.
- descrambled — Simple past tense and past participle of descramble.
- descrambler — unscrambler (def 2).
- describable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- desocialize — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- 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
- devocalized — Simple past tense and past participle of devocalize.
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- dialectally — in a dialectal manner
- dialectical — In philosophy, Dialectical is used to describe situations, theories, and methods which depend on resolving opposing factors.
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichlobenil — a nonselective preemergence herbicide, C 7 H 3 Cl 2 N, used primarily as a weed and grass killer.
- 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
- dictyostele — a form of stele found in some ferns, containing so many gaps that it is like a network of separate strands
- dielectrics — Plural form of dielectric.
- diglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of two hydroxyl groups with fatty acids.
- dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
- dill pickle — a cucumber pickle flavored with dill.
- 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.
- diotheletic — relating to diothelism
- 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.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- direct rule — Direct rule is a system in which a central government rules an area which has had its own parliament or law-making organization in the past.
- direct-dial — being a telephone or telephone system enabling long-distance calls to be direct-dialed.
- directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
- disc floret — any of the small tubular flowers at the centre of the flower head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy
- discalceate — (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.
- discardable — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernible — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernibly — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discerpible — Capable of being discerped.
- disciplined — having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
- discipliner — Agent noun of discipline: one who disciplines.
- disciplines — Plural form of discipline.
- disclaimers — Plural form of disclaimer.
- disclosures — Plural form of disclosure.
- discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
- discoloured — (British) alternative spelling of discolored.
- disculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of disculpate.