11-letter words containing d, i, s, l, e
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- devitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devitalize.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- 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.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dickcissels — Plural form of dickcissel.
- dictyostele — a form of stele found in some ferns, containing so many gaps that it is like a network of separate strands
- dielectrics — Plural form of dielectric.
- diesel fuel — a combustible petroleum distillate used as fuel for diesel engines.
- diffusively — In a diffusive manner.
- digestional — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- digestively — In a digestive manner; by means of digestion.
- digitalised — Medicine/Medical. to treat (a person) with a regimen of digitalis.
- digitalises — any plant belonging to the genus Digitalis, of the figwort family, especially the common foxglove, D. purpurea.
- dilettantes — Plural form of dilettante.
- dimensional — Of or pertaining to dimensions.
- diode laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
- diplomacies — Plural form of diplomacy.
- diplomatese — the type of language or jargon used by diplomats, thought to be excessively complicated, cautious, or vague
- direfulness — the state or fact of being direful
- 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.
- disannuller — a person who disannuls
- disassemble — to take apart.
- disassembly — to take apart.
- disavowable — capable of being disavowed
- disbelieved — Simple past tense and past participle of disbelieve.
- disbeliever — A person who refuses to believe something or who lacks religious faith.
- disbowelled — disembowelled
- disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- disc floret — any of the small tubular flowers at the centre of the flower head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy