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11-letter words containing d, e, a, t, r

  • contradance — contredanse
  • contravened — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
  • contredanse — a courtly Continental version of the English country dance, similar to the quadrille
  • conversated — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
  • coordinated — well organized
  • coordinates — clothes of matching or harmonious colours and design, suitable for wearing together
  • cord carpet — a type of carpet with a ribbed surface
  • cote d'azur — the Mediterranean coast of France, including the French Riviera: forms an administrative region with Provence
  • cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
  • counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
  • countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
  • counterraid — a retaliatory raid on an enemy
  • countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
  • court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
  • cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
  • credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
  • credit card — A credit card is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit. Compare charge card.
  • credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
  • crenellated — In a castle, a crenellated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
  • crescentade — a religious crusade or war fought under the flag of Turkey
  • cross-trade — cross (def 26).
  • cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
  • crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
  • crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
  • custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
  • custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
  • daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
  • danger list — on
  • dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
  • dark matter — Dark matter is material that is believed to form a large part of the universe, but which has never been seen.
  • dastardized — Simple past tense and past participle of dastardize.
  • dastardness — the sate or quality of being a dastard
  • data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
  • data logger — data logging
  • day of rest — the Sabbath; Sunday
  • day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
  • day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
  • de la renta — Oscar, 1932–2014, U.S. fashion designer, born in the Dominican Republic.
  • deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
  • dead center — the position of maximum (top dead center) or minimum (bottom dead center) extension of a crank and a connecting rod, in which both are in the same straight line
  • dead centre — the exact top (top dead centre) or bottom (bottom dead centre) of the piston stroke in a reciprocating engine or pump
  • dead letter — If you say that a law or agreement is a dead letter, you mean that it still exists but people ignore it.
  • dead matter — type that has already been used or is not going to be used
  • dead-stroke — relating to a stroke made that has no kickback or reverberation
  • deallocator — One who, or that which, deallocates.
  • dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
  • death adder — a venomous Australian elapid snake, Acanthophis antarcticus, resembling an adder
  • death chair — electric chair.
  • death grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a grant payable to a relative, executor, etc, after the death of a person
  • death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
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