11-letter words containing i, n, o, r, d
- deportation — the act of expelling an alien from a country; expulsion
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- deprecation — to express earnest disapproval of.
- depredation — The depredations of a person, animal, or force are their harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something.
- depressions — Plural form of depression.
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- derecognise — Alternative spelling of derecognize.
- derecognize — to cease to recognize (a trade union) as having special negotiating rights within a company or industry
- dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
- derivations — Plural form of derivation.
- derogations — Plural form of derogation.
- desalinator — an apparatus used in the process of desalination
- description — You can say that something is beyond description, or that it defies description, to emphasize that it is very unusual, impressive, terrible, or extreme.
- desecration — a desecrating or being desecrated
- designators — Plural form of designator.
- designatory — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- detractions — Plural form of detraction.
- deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diamond bar — a city in SW California.
- diamorphine — heroin.
- diatessaron — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fourth
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- diffraction — the phenomenon exhibited by wave fronts that, passing the edge of an opaque body, are modulated, thereby causing a redistribution of energy within the front: it is detectable in light waves by the presence of a pattern of closely spaced dark and light bands (diffraction pattern) at the edge of a shadow.
- digressions — Plural form of digression.
- dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
- dining room — a room in which meals are eaten, as in a home or hotel, especially the room in which the major or more formal meals are eaten.
- dinner fork — a fork used to eat the main course of a meal.
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- dinner roll — a small round piece of bread provided as a side dish as part of a meal
- dinosaurian — pertaining to or of the nature of a dinosaur.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- dioxonitric — as in dioxonitric acid, the systematic name of nitrous acid
- diprotodons — Plural form of diprotodon.
- diprotodont — any marsupial of the group or suborder Diprotodontia, including kangaroos, phalangers, and wombats, having fewer than three upper incisor teeth on each side of the jaw
- directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- dirty money — money obtained by immoral means
- discerption — The action of pulling something apart.
- discoloring — Present participle of discolor.
- disconcerts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disconcert.
- discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
- discordance — a discordant state; disagreement; discord.
- discordancy — discordance (defs 1–3).
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- discoursing — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discovering — Present participle of discover.
- discreation — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.