11-letter words containing d, i, n, f
- definiendum — something to be defined, esp the term or phrase to be accounted for in a dictionary entry
- definientia — Plural form of definiens.
- definitions — the formal statement of the meaning or significance of a word, phrase, idiom, etc., as found in dictionaries. An online dictionary resource, such as Dictionary.com, can give users direct, immediate access to the definitions of a term, allowing them to compare definitions from various dictionaries and stay up to date with an ever-expanding vocabulary.
- definitives — Plural form of definitive.
- deflections — Plural form of deflection.
- defloration — the act of deflowering
- deflowering — Present participle of deflower.
- defoliating — Present participle of defoliate.
- defoliation — to strip (a tree, bush, etc.) of leaves.
- deforesting — Present participle of deforest.
- deformation — the act of deforming; distortion
- deification — If you talk about the deification of someone or something, you mean that they are regarded with very great respect and are not criticized at all.
- deintensify — to make more acute; strengthen or sharpen.
- denazifying — Present participle of denazify.
- denitrified — Simple past tense and past participle of denitrify.
- denitrifier — an agent, often bacterial, which denitrifies
- detoxifying — Present participle of detoxify.
- dian fossey — Dian [dahy-an] /daɪˈæn/ (Show IPA), 1932–85, U.S. zoologist: expert on great apes.
- diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
- differences — Plural form of difference.
- differentia — the character or attribute by which one species is distinguished from all others of the same genus.
- differently — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- diffidently — lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
- diffraction — the phenomenon exhibited by wave fronts that, passing the edge of an opaque body, are modulated, thereby causing a redistribution of energy within the front: it is detectable in light waves by the presence of a pattern of closely spaced dark and light bands (diffraction pattern) at the edge of a shadow.
- diffuseness — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- diffusional — Of or pertaining to diffusion.
- dignifiable — Capable of being dignified.
- dignifiedly — In a dignified manner.
- dinner fork — a fork used to eat the main course of a meal.
- direfulness — the state or fact of being direful
- disbenefits — Plural form of disbenefit.
- disfavoring — Present participle of disfavor.
- disfiguring — Present participle of disfigure.
- disfrocking — Present participle of disfrock.
- disfunction — dysfunction.
- disidentify — (intransitive) Not to identify with something; to reject a personal or group identity, etc.
- disinfected — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disinfested — Simple past tense and past participle of disinfest.
- disinformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disinform.
- disunifying — Present participle of disunify.
- dobsonflies — Plural form of dobsonfly.
- dog fancier — a person with a special interest in dogs
- dog fouling — the offence of being in charge of a dog and failing to remove the faeces after it defecates in a public place
- dogfighting — a violent fight between dogs.
- dolphinfish — dolphin (def 2).
- downshifted — Simple past tense and past participle of downshift.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
- dry farming — a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage
- dry-footing — removal of glaze from the rim at the bottom of a piece.