11-letter words containing d, i, s, t, l
- delegations — Plural form of delegation.
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- deletionist — (classical studies) Favoring the deletion of a given passage or work as spurious.
- deliberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deliberate.
- delightless — not offering delight
- delightsome — highly pleasing; delightful.
- delineators — Plural form of delineator.
- delinquents — Plural form of delinquent.
- delitescent — concealed; hidden; latent.
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- delusionist — a person prone to delusions
- delustering — a chemical process for reducing the luster of rayon yarns by adding a finely divided pigment to the spinning solution.
- demolitions — explosives, as when used to blow up bridges, etc
- demutualise — If a building society or insurance company demutualises, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a limited company.
- dental lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- derailments — Plural form of derailment.
- desalinated — Simple past tense and past participle of desalinate.
- desalinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desalinate.
- desalinator — an apparatus used in the process of desalination
- descloizite — a mineral, lead zinc vanadate.
- desert soil — a type of soil developed in arid climates, characterized by a lack of leaching and small humus content
- desinential — Terminal.
- desolations — Plural form of desolation.
- 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.
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- detasseling — Present participle of detassel.
- detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
- 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.
- dialogistic — a speaker in a dialogue.
- 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.
- 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.
- dilatations — Plural form of dilatation.
- dilettantes — Plural form of dilettante.
- diluvialist — a person who believes in the theory of diluvialism
- diplomatese — the type of language or jargon used by diplomats, thought to be excessively complicated, cautious, or vague
- diplomatics — the science of deciphering old official documents, as charters, and of determining their authenticity, age, or the like.
- diplomatist — British Older Use. a Foreign Office employee officially engaged as a diplomat.
- 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.