11-letter words containing c, r, e, d, u
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- decluttered — Simple past tense and past participle of declutter.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
- deculturate — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decursively — in a decursive manner
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- destructing — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- destructors — Plural form of destructor.
- destructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- deuce court — the receiver's right-hand service court, into which the ball is served when the score is deuce.
- 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
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- 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.
- disclosures — Plural form of disclosure.
- discoloured — (British) alternative spelling of discolored.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- discouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourager — One who discourages.
- discourages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discourage.
- discourtesy — lack or breach of courtesy; incivility; rudeness.
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disgraceful — bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.
- disjuncture — the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined; disjunction.
- distincture — distinctness
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- diverticuli — Misspelling of diverticula.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- 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.
- druckenness — the state of being drunk
- 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
- due process — established course of legal proceedings
- dulcimerist — Someone who plays the dulcimer.
- duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
- duster coat — a woman's loose summer coat with wide sleeves and no buttons, popular in the mid-20th century
- dutch treat — a meal or entertainment for which each person pays his or her own expenses.
- duvet cover — the baglike cover into which the duvet is placed when you make a bed and which often makes a top sheet unnecessary
- edulcorated — Simple past tense and past participle of edulcorate.
- edulcorator — a device that supplies small quantities of a liquid to a mixture
- egg custard — sweet custard made with milk and egg and baked
- elucidators — Plural form of elucidator.
- elucidatory — Serving to elucidate.
- encountered — Simple past tense and past participle of encounter.