11-letter words containing d, u, r, e, s
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- crossruffed — Simple past tense and past participle of crossruff.
- crowdsource — to outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet
- crude steel — unrefined steel
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curd cheese — a mild white cheese made from skimmed milk curds, smoother and fattier than cottage cheese
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- 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.
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- 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.
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- day nursery — A day nursery is a place where children who are too young to go to school can be left all day while their parents are at work.
- day surgery — a system in which a patient comes into hospital for a surgical procedure, has the operation, recovers and is released from hospital in the course of a single day
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decursively — in a decursive manner
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- deliriously — Pathology. affected with or characteristic of delirium.
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- delusionary — having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions: Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
- delusterant — a chemical agent, as titanium dioxide, used in reducing the sheen of a yarn or fabric.
- delustering — a chemical process for reducing the luster of rayon yarns by adding a finely divided pigment to the spinning solution.
- demetrius i — (Poliorcetes) 337?–283 b.c, king of Macedonia 294–286 (son of Antigonus I).
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- derailleurs — Plural form of derailleur.
- deregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deregulate.
- desaturated — (of a color) formed by mixing a color of the spectrum with white.
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- destructing — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- destructors — Plural form of destructor.
- destructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- desulfurate — to desulfurize.
- desulfurize — to remove sulfur from
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- deux-sevres — a department of W France, in Poitou-Charentes region. Capital: Niort. Pop: 347 652 (2003 est). Area: 6054 sq km (2337 sq miles)
- dexterously — skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body.
- dinner suit — a dinner jacket and trousers, often worn with a bow tie at formal events
- direfulness — the state or fact of being direful
- disannuller — a person who disannuls
- disasterous — Misspelling of disastrous.
- disburdened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburden.