11-letter words containing e, n, d, i
- dorian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from D to D.
- dot etching — a method of making corrections in halftone positives or negatives by using chemicals to reduce the size of halftone dots.
- dotted line — a line on a contract or similar document for a party's signature.
- double bind — Psychology. a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, especially by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other.
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
- doveishness — the characteristic of being like a dove, esp. in a political sense in the US
- dovetailing — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- down ticket — relating to or noting a candidate or political contest that is relatively low-profile and local compared to one listed in a higher place on the ballot: Very popular presidential nominees often cause down-ballot candidates to win.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- downriggers — Plural form of downrigger.
- downshifted — Simple past tense and past participle of downshift.
- downwelling — a downward current of surface water in the ocean, usually caused by differences in the density of seawater.
- doxycycline — a synthetic analog of a broad-spectrum antibiotic tetracycline drug, C 22 H 24 N 2 O 8 , used against a wide range of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drainageway — a conduit, ditch, or the like, for draining water from an area.
- draw a line — If you draw a line between two things, you make a distinction between them.
- drawing pen — a pen with a fine nib used for drawing
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
- drink-drive — Drink-drive means relating to drink-driving.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive train — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- dronishness — the quality or capacity to drone
- drop a line — send a message
- drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- druid stone — sarsen.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- du guesclin — Bertrand [ber-trahn] /bɛrˈtrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), ("the Eagle of Brittany") c1320–80, French military leader: constable of France 1370–80.
- du vigneaud — Vincent, 1901–78, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
- dubiousness — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dumpishness — the state of being downhearted and dejected
- duncanville — a town in N Texas.
- dundrearies — an expression for long whiskers or side-burns on the side of the face when present without a beard
- dunfermline — an administrative district in E Scotland, in the Fife region. 120 sq. mi. (311 sq. km).
- duniewassal — a gentleman, especially a cadet of a ranking family, among the Highlanders of Scotland.
- duplicident — (of certain animals, such as rabbits) having two pairs of incisors in the upper jaw
- dust kitten — a dust ball.
- dutifulness — The state of being dutiful.
- dwindlement — the condition of decreasing or diminishing
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- dyssynergia — (medicine) Failure of parts of the anatomy to work together correctly.
- dyssynergic — relating to or affected by dyssynergia