11-letter words containing d, a
- accelerando — (to be performed) with increasing speed
- accelerated — Simple past tense and past participle of accelerate.
- accentuated — to give emphasis or prominence to.
- access code — a sequence of characters that allows the user access to a secure area or to a secure system
- access land — (in England and Wales) areas of the countryside which are open to the public
- access road — An access road is a road which enables traffic to reach a particular place or area.
- accessioned — Simple past tense and past participle of accession.
- accidentals — Plural form of accidental.
- accommodate — If a building or space can accommodate someone or something, it has enough room for them.
- accomodator — Misspelling of accommodator.
- accompanied — to go along or in company with; join in action: to accompany a friend on a walk.
- accordances — Plural form of accordance.
- accordantly — agreeing; conforming; harmonious.
- accordatura — the notes to which a stringed instrument is tuned.
- accordingly — You use accordingly to introduce a fact or situation which is a result or consequence of something that you have just referred to.
- accordioned — Also called piano accordion. a portable wind instrument having a large bellows for forcing air through small metal reeds, a keyboard for the right hand, and buttons for sounding single bass notes or chords for the left hand.
- account day — (on the London Stock Exchange) the day on which deliveries and payments relating to transactions made during the preceding account are made
- accrediting — Present participle of accredit.
- accredition — The giving of credentials.
- accumulated — to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up: to accumulate wealth.
- ace bandage — an elasticated bandage used to restrict blood flow to the site of an injury and so reduce inflammation
- acetanilide — a white crystalline powder used in the manufacture of dyes and rubber, as an analgesic in medicine, and as a precursor in penicillin manufacture. Formula: C6H5NHCOCH3
- acetic acid — Acetic acid is a colourless acid. It is the main substance in vinegar.
- acey-deucey — a variation of the game of backgammon, in which the throw of a 1 and a 2 has special value
- achlamydate — not chlamydate; having neither mantle nor pallium.
- achondrites — Plural form of achondrite.
- achondritic — (geology) Of or pertaining to achondrite, a type of stony meteorite.
- acid number — a number indicating the amount of free acid present in a substance, equal to the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide needed to neutralize the free fatty acids present in one gram of fat or oil
- acid reflux — the regurgitation of stomach acid into the oesophagus, causing heartburn
- acid-loving — (of a plant) requiring a pH of 4.5 to 5.5 for optimal growth.
- acid-washed — (of a denim garment) processed with a bleach solution so that the color becomes faded and grayish.
- acidanthera — any plant of the African cormous genus Acidanthera, cultivated for its graceful tubular white and red or white and purple flowers, often scented: family Iridaceae
- acidimeters — Plural form of acidimeter.
- acidimetric — (chemistry) Describing a titration in which the titrant is an acid.
- acidophilic — easily stained with acid dyes
- acidophilus — a lactic-acid-producing bacterium primarily found in live yoghurt, useful in restoring bacterial balance in the intestine
- acidulating — Present participle of acidulate.
- acidulation — to make somewhat acid.
- acidulously — In a acidulous manner; in a mildly sour or acid way.
- acknowledge — If you acknowledge a fact or a situation, you accept or admit that it is true or that it exists.
- acraldehyde — acrolein.
- acrochordon — (medicine) A soft, pedunculated or pensile wart, consisting of myomatous or edematous fibrous tissue, often found on the neck or eyelids of elderly persons.
- acrodynamic — Lb linguistics acrokinetic.
- acrylamides — Plural form of acrylamide.
- actinodrome — (of a leaf) palmately veined.
- active dbms — (database) A conventional or passive DBMS combined with a means of event detection and condition monitoring. Event handling is often rule-based, as with an expert system.
- active duty — Active duty means the same as active service.
- acyl halide — any derivative of carboxylic acid in which the hydroxyl group has been replaced by a halogen atom
- ad absurdum — to the point of absurdity.
- ad campaign — An ad campaign is a planned series of advertisements.