11-letter words containing d, i, a, p
- 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.
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- 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.
- cyclopaedia — (archaic) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.
- damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- das kapital — a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.
- day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
- de-emphasis — a reduction in emphasis: There has been de-emphasis on athletic activities at the school.
- deadpanning — Present participle of deadpan.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- decapitated — With the head removed.
- decapitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decapitate.
- decapitator — One who decapitates.
- decrepitate — to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
- deduplicate — to remove (duplicated material) from a system
- deemphasize — to place less emphasis upon; reduce in importance, size, scope, etc.: The university de-emphasized intercollegiate football.
- delapidated — Misspelling of dilapidated.
- delipidated — Simple past tense and past participle of delipidate.
- delphically — in an ambiguous manner; obscurely
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- dental lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- depauperize — to make (a person) poor
- deploration — the act of deploring
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depolarized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolarize.
- depolarizer — a substance added to the electrolyte of an electric cell or battery to remove gas collected at the electrodes.
- deportation — the act of expelling an alien from a country; expulsion
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- depravingly — in a depraving manner
- depravities — Plural form of depravity.
- deprecating — A deprecating attitude, gesture, or remark shows that you think that something is not very good, especially something associated with yourself.
- deprecation — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecative — serving to deprecate; deprecatory.
- depreciable — able to be depreciated for tax deduction
- depreciated — Simple past tense and past participle of depreciate; reduced in value over time.
- depreciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depreciate.
- depreciator — One who depreciates.
- depredation — The depredations of a person, animal, or force are their harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something.
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- deprivative — of, relating to, or causing deprivation
- deprivatize — (transitive) To strip the privacy from; to make public.
- deputations — Plural form of deputation.
- dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- des plaines — city in NE Ill.: suburb of Chicago: pop. 59,000
- desipramine — a tricyclic antidepressant drug