11-letter words containing e, t, r
- cybernetics — Cybernetics is science which involves studying the way electronic machines and human brains work, and developing machines that do things or think like people.
- cybersafety — Safety in using the Internet.
- cycle track — a special path created for cyclists to use
- cyclometers — Plural form of cyclometer.
- cyproterone — an antiandrogen drug that suppresses testosterone in the body
- cysticercus — an encysted larval form of many tapeworms, consisting of a head (scolex) inverted in a fluid-filled bladder
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
- 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 matter — Dark matter is material that is believed to form a large part of the universe, but which has never been seen.
- dastardized — Simple past tense and past participle of dastardize.
- dastardness — the sate or quality of being a dastard
- 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.
- data logger — data logging
- day of rest — the Sabbath; Sunday
- day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
- day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
- de la renta — Oscar, 1932–2014, U.S. fashion designer, born in the Dominican Republic.
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- dead center — the position of maximum (top dead center) or minimum (bottom dead center) extension of a crank and a connecting rod, in which both are in the same straight line
- dead centre — the exact top (top dead centre) or bottom (bottom dead centre) of the piston stroke in a reciprocating engine or pump
- dead letter — If you say that a law or agreement is a dead letter, you mean that it still exists but people ignore it.
- dead matter — type that has already been used or is not going to be used
- dead-stroke — relating to a stroke made that has no kickback or reverberation
- deallocator — One who, or that which, deallocates.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- death adder — a venomous Australian elapid snake, Acanthophis antarcticus, resembling an adder
- death chair — electric chair.
- death grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a grant payable to a relative, executor, etc, after the death of a person
- death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
- 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
- debt burden — A debt burden is a large amount of money that one country or organization owes to another and which they find very difficult to repay.
- 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.
- decahydrate — a hydrate that contains ten molecules of water, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O.
- decapitator — One who decapitates.
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
- decartelize — to break up (a cartel)
- decelerated — Simple past tense and past participle of decelerate.
- decelerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decelerate.
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
- decentering — to put out of center.
- decerebrate — to remove the brain or a large section of the brain or to cut the spinal cord at the level of the brain stem of (a person or animal)
- decertified — Simple past tense and past participle of decertify.