11-letter words containing d, i, a, t, r
- 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.
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
- crystalloid — resembling or having the appearance or properties of a crystal or crystalloid
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- 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.
- darwinistic — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- dastardized — Simple past tense and past participle of dastardize.
- 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.
- day trading — the practice of buying and selling shares on the same day, often via the internet, in order to make a quick profit
- day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- death chair — electric chair.
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- decapitator — One who decapitates.
- decartelize — to break up (a cartel)
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
- declaration — A declaration is an official announcement or statement.
- declarative — making a statement or assertion
- declinatory — a plea that has the aim of demonstrating that the accused is exempt from legal authority and punishment
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- decorations — Plural form of decoration.
- decorticate — to remove the bark or some other outer layer from
- decrepitate — to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- dedramatize — to cause to be less dramatic
- defeaticrat — a member or supporter of the Democratic Party, echoing the belief among many opponents that it promoted a defeatist attitude to the situation in Iraq following the US-led invasion of 2003
- deferential — Someone who is deferential is polite and respectful towards someone else.
- defibrinate — to divest of fibrin or the protein formed in blood during clotting
- defloration — the act of deflowering
- deformation — the act of deforming; distortion
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- degerminate — degerm (def 2).
- degradation — You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality.
- degradative — causing degradation
- dehortation — an exhortation against a course of action
- dehydrating — Present participle of dehydrate.
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- deintegrate — (obsolete) To disintegrate.
- deliberated — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deliberate.