11-letter words containing d, e, t, r, a
- disfeatured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfeature.
- disheartens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishearten.
- dishearting — Present participle of disheart.
- disordinate — opposed to or violating moral or legal order
- disparately — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparities — Plural form of disparity.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- dispensator — a person who dispenses; distributor; administrator.
- dispersants — Plural form of dispersant.
- disregulate — Misspelling of dysregulate.
- disrelation — the absence of relation
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- distractive — tending to distract.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- divaricated — Spread-out, divergent, especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem.
- 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.
- do a stroke — If someone does not do a stroke of work, they are very lazy and do no work at all.
- doc martens — a brand of lace-up boots with thick lightweight resistant soles
- doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
- doctrinaire — a person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient regard for practical considerations; an impractical theorist.
- 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.
- dog-catcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- dollar rate — a variable amount of foreign currency quoted against one unit of the US Dollar
- dorset naga — a British-grown variety of the Naga Jolokia chilli pepper, noted for its extreme heat
- dot address — An Internet address in dot notation.
- dot leaders — (text) A row of full stops intended to guide the reader's eye across the page from a column of variable length items on the left to the corresponding items in a column on the right. Used, for example, in the contents page of a book to tie a heading on the left to its page number on the right.
- dotted pair — (programming) The usual LISP syntax for representing a cons cell that is not a list. For example, the expression (cons 'foo 42) returns a cons cell that is output as (foo . 42) which represents a cons cell whose car is the symbol "foo" and whose cdr is the integer 42.
- 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)
- down-easter — a full-rigged ship built in New England in the late 19th century, usually of wood and relatively fast.
- down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
- downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
- dragon tree — a tall, treelike plant, Dracaena draco, of the Canary Islands, scarce in the wild but common in cultivation, yielding a variety of dragon's blood.
- draize test — a test assessing the potential of drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and other commercial products to produce irritation, pain, or damage to the human eye by studying its effect on a rabbit's eye.
- dramaturges — Plural form of dramaturge.
- draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- draw weight — the measured force, in foot-pounds, stored by an archery bow when fully drawn.
- dreadnaught — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
- drillmaster — a person who trains others in something, especially routinely or mechanically.
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- drive train — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
- 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.
- dry-roasted — roasted with no oil, or less oil than is usually used in roasting, so that the product is drier, crisper, and less caloric: dry-roasted peanuts.