11-letter words containing d, p, a, r
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dap fortran — ["Efficient High Speed Computing with the Distributed Array Processor", P.M. Flanders et al, pp.113-127 (1977)].
- dapple-gray — gray spotted with darker gray
- dapple-grey — a horse with a grey coat having spots of darker colour
- dawn patrol — a flight, especially during the early days of military aviation, undertaken at dawn or early morning in order to reconnoiter enemy positions.
- day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- decapitator — One who decapitates.
- decrepitate — to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
- deep throat — an anonymous source of secret information
- delors plan — a plan for closer European union, originated by Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission (1985–94)
- demographer — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- departement — an administrative department
- departments — Plural form of department.
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- depauperate — poor; impoverished
- depauperize — to make (a person) poor
- deploration — the act of deploring
- depolarized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolarize.
- depolarizer — a substance added to the electrolyte of an electric cell or battery to remove gas collected at the electrodes.
- depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
- deportation — the act of expelling an alien from a country; expulsion
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- depravement — (archaic) Depravity; corruption.
- depravingly — in a depraving manner
- depravities — Plural form of depravity.
- deprecating — A deprecating attitude, gesture, or remark shows that you think that something is not very good, especially something associated with yourself.
- deprecation — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecative — serving to deprecate; deprecatory.
- deprecatory — expressing disapproval; protesting
- depreciable — able to be depreciated for tax deduction
- depreciated — Simple past tense and past participle of depreciate; reduced in value over time.
- depreciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depreciate.
- depreciator — One who depreciates.
- depredation — The depredations of a person, animal, or force are their harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something.
- depredatory — Tending or designed to depredate.
- depressants — Plural form of depressant.
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- deprivative — of, relating to, or causing deprivation
- deprivatize — (transitive) To strip the privacy from; to make public.
- deprogramme — to free (someone) from the effects of indoctrination, esp by a religious cult or political group
- deprotonate — (chemistry, ergative) To remove one or more protons from (a molecule).
- dermapteran — any insect of the order Dermaptera, the earwigs
- dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- dermography — a type of marking on the skin, whether in the form of writing or pictures, supposedly of psychic origin, similar to stigmata except for being more short-lived
- dermoplasty — skin grafting.
- dermopteran — flying lemur