11-letter words containing d, i, s, n
- divinations — Plural form of divination.
- diving suit — any of various waterproof garments for underwater swimming or diving, especially one that is weighted, hermetically sealed, and supplied with air under pressure through a hose attached to a removable helmet.
- divinopolis — a city in Minas Gerais state, SE Brazil.
- divisionary — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- divisionism — pointillism.
- divisionist — One who supports division (of a territory, etc.).
- dna testing — genetic profiling
- do business — trade
- dobsonflies — Plural form of dobsonfly.
- docibleness — the quality or character of being docible
- doggishness — The quality of being doggish.
- dollar sign — the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.
- dollishness — The quality of being dollish.
- dolphinfish — dolphin (def 2).
- doltishness — The characteristic of being doltish.
- dominations — an act or instance of dominating.
- dominionism — A tendency among some conservative Christians, especially in the USA, to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action.
- don juanism — a syndrome, occurring in males, of excessive preoccupation with sexual gratification or conquest and leading to persistently transient and sometimes exploitative relationships.
- dongle-disk — /don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.
- donnishness — The quality of being donnish.
- dorsispinal — of or relating to the back and the spine.
- doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
- doveishness — the characteristic of being like a dove, esp. in a political sense in the US
- downriggers — Plural form of downrigger.
- downscaling — Present participle of downscale.
- downshifted — Simple past tense and past participle of downshift.
- dowsing rod — Also called dowsing rod [dou-zing] /ˈdaʊ zɪŋ/ (Show IPA). divining rod.
- dowsing-rod — Also called dowsing rod [dou-zing] /ˈdaʊ zɪŋ/ (Show IPA). divining rod.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
- dramatising — Present participle of dramatise.
- drawstrings — Plural form of drawstring.
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- dronishness — the quality or capacity to drone
- drop siding — weatherboarding having its upper edges narrowed to fit into grooves or rabbets in its lower edges, and its backs flat against the sheathing or studs of the wall.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- druid stone — sarsen.
- du guesclin — Bertrand [ber-trahn] /bɛrˈtrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), ("the Eagle of Brittany") c1320–80, French military leader: constable of France 1370–80.
- dubiousness — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dumpishness — the state of being downhearted and dejected
- dundrearies — an expression for long whiskers or side-burns on the side of the face when present without a beard
- duniewassal — a gentleman, especially a cadet of a ranking family, among the Highlanders of Scotland.
- dust kitten — a dust ball.
- dustbin man — (in British English) a man that is employed to collect domestic refuse
- dutifulness — The state of being dutiful.
- dynasticism — a system of government in which the rulers are all drawn from the same family
- dysfunction — Medicine/Medical. malfunctioning, as of an organ or structure of the body.
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development