11-letter words containing d, u, s, t
- conductress — a female conductor
- constituted — to compose; form: mortar constituted of lime and sand.
- constructed — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- consuetudes — Plural form of consuetude.
- consummated — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- cosmic dust — fine particles of solid matter occurring throughout interstellar space and often collecting into clouds of extremely low density
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- countersued — Simple past tense and past participle of countersue.
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- court dress — the formal clothing worn at court
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- crude steel — unrefined steel
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
- 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.
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- cut sb dead — If you see someone you know and cut them dead, you ignore them.
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- dasht-e-lut — vast desert region of central and SE Iran, extending southward from the Dasht-e-Kavir
- dasht-i-lut — a desert plateau in central and E central Iran
- date mussel — any brown, date-sized marine mussel, genus Lithophaga, that bores into rock or coral.
- dauntlessly — In a dauntless manner.
- day student — a student at a college or secondary school who does not reside in a facility provided by the school
- deaf-mutism — unable to hear and speak.
- death house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
- death squad — Death squads are groups of people who operate illegally and carry out the killing of people such as their political opponents or criminals.
- decapsulate — to remove a capsule from (a part or organ, esp the kidney)
- declivitous — fairly steep
- 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.
- decussating — Present participle of decussate.
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- deductibles — Plural form of deductible.
- defunctness — The state or quality of being defunct.
- degustation — the act of sampling a wide variety of foods, wines, etc.
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- delinquents — Plural form of delinquent.
- delta blues — a style of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta, typically featuring slide guitar and harmonica
- 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
- 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).
- demodulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demodulate.
- demutualise — If a building society or insurance company demutualises, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a limited company.
- denouements — Plural form of denouement.