11-letter words containing i, t, o
- descriptors — Plural form of descriptor.
- desecration — a desecrating or being desecrated
- desert soil — a type of soil developed in arid climates, characterized by a lack of leaching and small humus content
- desiccation — Desiccation is the process of becoming completely dried out.
- designation — A designation is a description, name, or title that is given to someone or something. Designation is the fact of giving that description, name, or title.
- designators — Plural form of designator.
- designatory — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- desk editor — someone employed to read through newspaper text before publication to correct errors
- desolations — Plural form of desolation.
- desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
- despoilment — The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
- dessication — Misspelling of desiccation.
- destination — The destination of someone or something is the place to which they are going or being sent.
- destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- detectorist — a person whose hobby is using a metal detector
- deteriorate — If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
- deteriorism — the belief that everything is getting worse, that the universe is deteriorating or decaying
- deteriority — the quality of being inferior or worse
- detestation — intense hatred; abhorrence
- detonations — Plural form of detonation.
- detoxicated — Simple past tense and past participle of detoxicate.
- detoxifying — Present participle of detoxify.
- detractions — Plural form of detraction.
- detritivore — an organism that uses organic waste as a food source, as certain insects.
- detritovore — any organism that feeds on detritus
- deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- devotionist — a person who practises formal devotion
- dexiotropic — (of cleavage) spiral; twisting in a spiral fashion from left to right
- diabetology — (medicine) The study of the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
- diacoustics — the branch of physics that deals with refracted sound
- diagnostics — the art or practice of diagnosis, esp of diseases
- dialogistic — a speaker in a dialogue.
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diapositive — a positive transparency; slide
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- diatessaron — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fourth
- diatonicism — the use of diatonic harmony; composition in a diatonic idiom.
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomist — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomize — to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.