11-letter words containing d, i, m, e, t
- despoilment — The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
- dessignment — design; planning
- 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.
- deteriorism — the belief that everything is getting worse, that the universe is deteriorating or decaying
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- determinant — A determinant of something causes it to be of a particular kind or to happen in a particular way.
- determinate — Determinate means fixed and definite.
- determiners — Plural form of determiner.
- determining — having the quality of deciding
- determinism — Determinism is the belief that all actions and events result from other actions, events, or situations, so people cannot in fact choose what to do.
- determinist — A determinist is someone who believes in determinism.
- detrainment — The act of detraining.
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- diamagnetic — of, exhibiting, or concerned with diamagnetism
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- diastematic — characterized by diastema
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomize — to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- dim-sighted — with weak or indistinct vision
- dimentional — Misspelling of dimensional.
- dimethicone — Polydimethylsiloxane.
- diminuitive — Misspelling of diminutive.
- diminutives — Plural form of diminutive.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- diopsimeter — an instrument for measuring the field of vision.
- dioptometer — an instrument for measuring the refraction of the eye.
- diplomatese — the type of language or jargon used by diplomats, thought to be excessively complicated, cautious, or vague
- diplomatize — to use diplomacy or tact.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- dirt farmer — a farmer who works on the soil, distinguished from one who operates a farm with hired hands or tenants.
- dirty money — money obtained by immoral means
- disablement — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disarmament — the act or an instance of disarming.
- disbandment — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
- discardment — the act or process of discarding
- discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
- discomfited — Make (someone) feel uneasy or embarrassed.
- discomycete — any of a group of fungi considered as belonging to the class Ascomycetes of the kingdom Plantae, including cup fungi, morels, and truffles, characterized by a cup-shaped or disk-shaped fruiting body.
- disembitter — to remove (an attitude of) bitterness
- disentombed — Simple past tense and past participle of disentomb.
- disesteemed — to hold in low regard; think unfavorably of.
- dislodgment — Alternative form of dislodgement.
- disportment — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- dissembleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissemble.
- disseminate — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissepiment — Anatomy, Zoology. a partition or septum in a tissue.
- dissimilate — to modify by dissimilation.