11-letter words containing d, i, e, l
- desalinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desalinate.
- desalinator — an apparatus used in the process of desalination
- desalinized — Simple past tense and past participle of desalinize.
- desalinizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desalinize.
- descendible — capable of being inherited
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- descloizite — a mineral, lead zinc vanadate.
- describable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- deserialize — (transitive, computing) To parse (serialized data) so as to reconstruct the original object.
- desert soil — a type of soil developed in arid climates, characterized by a lack of leaching and small humus content
- deservingly — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
- desexualise — Alternative spelling of desexualize.
- desexualize — to deprive of sexual characteristics by the surgical removal of the testicles or ovaries; castrate or spay
- deshielding — (physics, chemistry) The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is strengthened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei.
- desilverize — to extract silver from (metal)
- desinential — Terminal.
- desocialize — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- desolations — Plural form of desolation.
- desparingly — In a despairing manner.
- despisingly — in a despising manner; contemptuously
- despoilment — The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
- destabilise — (transitive) To make something unstable.
- destabilize — To destabilize something such as a country or government means to create a situation which reduces its power or influence.
- destalinize — (transitive) To free from the influence of w Joseph Stalin.
- desterilize — to bring back from a sterile state; specif., to release (gold) from a neutralized position into an active position in the monetary system where it can support credit and monetary issues
- 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.
- desulfurize — to remove sulfur from
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- detasseling — Present participle of detassel.
- detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
- detribalize — to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their characteristic customs or social, religious, or other organizational features
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- deuces wild — a variety or method of playing certain poker and other games in which a deuce represents any suit or denomination that the holder chooses: We're playing five-card stud, deuces wild.
- devaluating — Present participle of devaluate.
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- devil's bit — devil's bit scabious
- devil's-bit — an eastern North American plant, Chamaelirium luteum, of the lily family, having a dense, drooping spike of small white flowers.
- devitalized — to deprive of vitality or vital properties; make lifeless; weaken.
- devitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devitalize.
- devocalized — Simple past tense and past participle of devocalize.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- diabetology — (medicine) The study of the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diagnosable — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- diagonalise — Alternative spelling of diagonalize.
- diagonalize — (in linear algebra) to convert a square matrix into a diagonal matrix
- dialectally — in a dialectal manner
- dialectical — In philosophy, Dialectical is used to describe situations, theories, and methods which depend on resolving opposing factors.
- diametrical — of or along a diameter