11-letter words containing d, a, b
- deal a blow — If an event deals a blow to something or someone, it causes them great difficulties or makes failure more likely.
- dealbreaker — A dealbreaker is an issue that prevents people from reaching an agreement.
- dealing box — a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- debauchedly — In a debauched manner.
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- debilitated — in a severely weakened state
- debilitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debilitate.
- debut album — the first album produced by a particular singer or band
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- decarburize — decarbonize
- decerebrate — to remove the brain or a large section of the brain or to cut the spinal cord at the level of the brain stem of (a person or animal)
- defatigable — (very, rare) Easily tired or wearied; capable of being fatigued.
- defibrinate — to divest of fibrin or the protein formed in blood during clotting
- deflagrable — having the ability to burst into flames quickly
- deflectable — able to be deflected
- delabialize — to deprive (a sound) of labial character, as in unrounding a vowel.
- delagoa bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean, in S Mozambique
- delectables — Plural form of delectable.
- deliberated — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deliberate.
- deliberator — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
- delightable — (obsolete) Delightful.
- deliverable — capable of delivery.
- delta blues — a style of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta, typically featuring slide guitar and harmonica
- demand bill — a bill of exchange that is payable on demand
- demibastion — half a bastion, having only one flank, at right angles to the wall
- demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- deniability — the condition of being deniable
- denominable — Capable of being denominated or named.
- dentil band — (in classical architecture) a molding occupying the position of a row of dentils and often cut to resemble one.
- dentolabial — (phonetics) articulated with the upper lip and lower teeth.
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- dependables — Plural form of dependable.
- depreciable — able to be depreciated for tax deduction
- 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.
- destabilise — (transitive) To make something unstable.
- destabilize — To destabilize something such as a country or government means to create a situation which reduces its power or influence.
- destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
- desublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
- detribalize — to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their characteristic customs or social, religious, or other organizational features