11-letter words containing d, e, u, t, s
- day student — a student at a college or secondary school who does not reside in a facility provided by the school
- deaf-mutism — unable to hear and speak.
- death house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
- death squad — Death squads are groups of people who operate illegally and carry out the killing of people such as their political opponents or criminals.
- decapsulate — to remove a capsule from (a part or organ, esp the kidney)
- declivitous — fairly steep
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decussating — Present participle of decussate.
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- deductibles — Plural form of deductible.
- defunctness — The state or quality of being defunct.
- degustation — the act of sampling a wide variety of foods, wines, etc.
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- delinquents — Plural form of delinquent.
- delta blues — a style of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta, typically featuring slide guitar and harmonica
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- delusionist — a person prone to delusions
- delusterant — a chemical agent, as titanium dioxide, used in reducing the sheen of a yarn or fabric.
- delustering — a chemical process for reducing the luster of rayon yarns by adding a finely divided pigment to the spinning solution.
- demetrius i — (Poliorcetes) 337?–283 b.c, king of Macedonia 294–286 (son of Antigonus I).
- demodulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demodulate.
- demutualise — If a building society or insurance company demutualises, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a limited company.
- denouements — Plural form of denouement.
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- denunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denunciate.
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- depopulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depopulate.
- deputations — Plural form of deputation.
- deregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deregulate.
- desaturated — (of a color) formed by mixing a color of the spectrum with white.
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- desquamated — Simple past tense and past participle of desquamate.
- destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
- destructing — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- destructors — Plural form of destructor.
- destructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- 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.
- desulfurate — to desulfurize.
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- detumescent — characterized by detumescence
- deutschland — Germany
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- dexterously — skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body.
- diminutives — Plural form of diminutive.
- dinner suit — a dinner jacket and trousers, often worn with a bow tie at formal events
- disasterous — Misspelling of disastrous.