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

  • deprecation — to express earnest disapproval of.
  • depreciator — One who depreciates.
  • depredation — The depredations of a person, animal, or force are their harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something.
  • deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
  • dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
  • derivations — Plural form of derivation.
  • dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
  • dermotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
  • derogations — Plural form of derogation.
  • desalinator — an apparatus used in the process of desalination
  • description — You can say that something is beyond description, or that it defies description, to emphasize that it is very unusual, impressive, terrible, or extreme.
  • descriptors — Plural form of descriptor.
  • desecration — a desecrating or being desecrated
  • desert soil — a type of soil developed in arid climates, characterized by a lack of leaching and small humus content
  • designators — Plural form of designator.
  • designatory — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
  • desk editor — someone employed to read through newspaper text before publication to correct errors
  • desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
  • destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
  • desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  • detectorist — a person whose hobby is using a metal detector
  • deteriorate — If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
  • deteriorism — the belief that everything is getting worse, that the universe is deteriorating or decaying
  • deteriority — the quality of being inferior or worse
  • detractions — Plural form of detraction.
  • detritivore — an organism that uses organic waste as a food source, as certain insects.
  • detritovore — any organism that feeds on detritus
  • deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
  • dexiotropic — (of cleavage) spiral; twisting in a spiral fashion from left to right
  • diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
  • diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
  • diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
  • diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
  • diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
  • diatessaron — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fourth
  • dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
  • dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
  • dictatorial — Dictatorial means controlled or used by a dictator.
  • diffraction — the phenomenon exhibited by wave fronts that, passing the edge of an opaque body, are modulated, thereby causing a redistribution of energy within the front: it is detectable in light waves by the presence of a pattern of closely spaced dark and light bands (diffraction pattern) at the edge of a shadow.
  • digladiator — a person who contends or fights
  • 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.
  • 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.
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