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11-letter words containing d, i, r, t

  • dignitaries — a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church.
  • dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
  • dilapidator — One who dilapidates, a person committing dilapidation.
  • dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
  • dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
  • dimitrios i — (Dimitrios Papadopoulos) 1914–91, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church 1972–91.
  • dinner suit — a dinner jacket and trousers, often worn with a bow tie at formal events
  • dinnerplate — A plate on which dinner can be served.
  • 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.
  • dioxonitric — as in dioxonitric acid, the systematic name of nitrous acid
  • diphtheroid — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
  • diprotodons — Plural form of diprotodon.
  • diprotodont — any marsupial of the group or suborder Diprotodontia, including kangaroos, phalangers, and wombats, having fewer than three upper incisor teeth on each side of the jaw
  • dipterocarp — A tall forest tree from which are obtained resins and timber for the export trade, occurring mainly in Southeast Asia.
  • direct cost — a cost that can be related directly to the production of a product or to a particular function or service.
  • 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.
  • direct rule — Direct rule is a system in which a central government rules an area which has had its own parliament or law-making organization in the past.
  • direct-dial — being a telephone or telephone system enabling long-distance calls to be direct-dialed.
  • directed oc — (language)   (Doc) A language related to Oc.
  • directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
  • directivity — (geology) The effect of earthquake motion propagation being greater in the direction of the rupture.
  • directorate — the office of a director.
  • directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
  • directories — directory
  • dirlotapide — A drug used to treat obesity in dogs.
  • dirt dauber — mud dauber.
  • dirt farmer — a farmer who works on the soil, distinguished from one who operates a farm with hired hands or tenants.
  • dirty linen — intimate secrets, esp those that might give rise to gossip
  • dirty money — money obtained by immoral means
  • dirty power — Electrical mains voltage that is unfriendly to the delicate innards of computers. Spikes, drop-outs, average voltage significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just plain noise can all cause problems of varying subtlety and severity (these are collectively known as power hits).
  • dirty trick — act: unfair, dishonest
  • disaccredit — to take away the accreditation or authorization of: to disaccredit a diplomat.
  • disafforest — To deforest.
  • disapparate — To disappear (magically).
  • disarmament — the act or an instance of disarming.
  • disasterous — Misspelling of disastrous.
  • disattiring — Present participle of disattire.
  • disc floret — any of the small tubular flowers at the centre of the flower head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy
  • discardment — the act or process of discarding
  • disceptator — a person who disputes or disagrees
  • discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
  • discerption — The action of pulling something apart.
  • discerptive — capable of being discerped
  • discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
  • discomforts — Plural form of discomfort.
  • disconcerts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disconcert.
  • discounters — Plural form of discounter.
  • discourtesy — lack or breach of courtesy; incivility; rudeness.
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