11-letter words containing e, d, i, r
- 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.
- cyberfriend — A friend with whom one communicates only through the Internet or cyberspace.
- cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
- d'iberville — Sieur(born Pierre Le Moyne) 1661-1706; Fr. explorer in North America
- dacarbazine — a toxic, light-sensitive powder, C 6 H 10 N 6 O, used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and metastatic malignant melanoma.
- dairy breed — any of several breeds of cattle developed primarily for production of milk rather than meat, as Ayrshire, Guernsey, Holstein, and Jersey breeds.
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- danger list — on
- dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
- dark-haired — (of a person) having dark hair
- darlingness — the quality or characteristic of being darling, sweet, or charming
- darning egg — a rounded piece of wood or plastic used in darning to support the fabric around the hole
- dastardized — Simple past tense and past participle of dastardize.
- data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
- dawn raider — a person or company that mounts a dawn raid
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
- daydreaming — indulgence in daydreams
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- de villiers — A(braham) B(enjamin), born 1984, South African cricketer; a prolific run-scorer in all forms of international cricket
- de-energize — to disconnect (an electrical circuit) from its source
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- dead firing — firing of a furnace or boiler at less than normal operating temperature in order to maintain conditions desirable during a period of idleness.
- dead ringer — a person or thing that closely resembles another; ringer: That old car is a dead ringer for the one we used to own.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- death chair — electric chair.
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- debridement — the surgical removal of dead tissue or cellular debris from the surface of a wound
- debriefings — Plural form of debriefing.
- debt crisis — a situation in which the large debts owed by a number of individuals, organizations or countries threaten to overwhelm them, so that they become unable to service their debts which, in turn, may threaten the stability of larger structures
- debt relief — Debt relief is a reduction in the amount of debt that a country has to pay.
- debt-ridden — Debt-ridden countries, companies, or people owe extremely large amounts of money.
- decameronic — resembling or having characteristics of the Decameron written by Boccaccio
- decapitator — One who decapitates.
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- decarburize — decarbonize
- decartelize — to break up (a cartel)
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
- decennaries — Plural form of decennary.
- decentering — to put out of center.
- decerebrize — to remove the cerebrum of (an animal)
- decertified — Simple past tense and past participle of decertify.
- deciphering — Present participle of decipher.
- deck bridge — a bridge with an upper horizontal beam that carries the roadway
- declaration — A declaration is an official announcement or statement.
- declarative — making a statement or assertion
- declinatory — a plea that has the aim of demonstrating that the accused is exempt from legal authority and punishment
- declinature — the act of refusing politely