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11-letter words containing d, a, r, b

  • delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
  • deliverable — capable of delivery.
  • denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
  • denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
  • 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.
  • destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
  • detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
  • detribalize — to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their characteristic customs or social, religious, or other organizational features
  • deverbative — a word formed or derived from a verb
  • diamond bar — a city in SW California.
  • diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
  • dirt dauber — mud dauber.
  • disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
  • 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.
  • disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
  • disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
  • disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
  • disturbance — the act of disturbing.
  • dithyrambic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a dithyramb, or an impassioned oration.
  • dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
  • dolabriform — shaped like an ax or a cleaver.
  • dollar bill — a piece of paper money worth one dollar
  • doner kebab — a fast-food dish comprising grilled meat and salad served in pitta bread with chilli sauce
  • dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
  • double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • draft board — a board of civilians charged with registering, classifying, and selecting persons for U.S. military service.
  • dragon beam — dragging piece.
  • dragon book — (publication)   The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
  • drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
  • drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
  • drapability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
  • drawability — the degree to which a metal can be drawn.
  • drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
  • drivability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
  • dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
  • drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
  • drum-beater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
  • drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
  • dry battery — a dry cell or a voltaic battery consisting of a number of dry cells.
  • dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
  • dumb barter — a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face.
  • dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
  • dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
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