11-letter words containing m, e, d, u
- denouements — Plural form of denouement.
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- desquamated — Simple past tense and past participle of desquamate.
- desublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- detumescent — characterized by detumescence
- deuterogamy — a marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse
- deuteronomy — the fifth book of the Old Testament, containing a second statement of the Mosaic Law
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- diminuendos — Plural form of diminuendo.
- diminuitive — Misspelling of diminutive.
- diminutives — Plural form of diminutive.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disseminule — any propagative part of a plant, as a bud, seed, or spore, that is capable of disseminating the plant.
- dissimulate — to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
- diytterbium — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two ytterbium atoms in a molecule.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- documenting — Present participle of document.
- double demy — a size of printing paper, 22½ × 35 inches (57 × 89 cm).
- double dome — an intellectual; egghead.
- double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
- double room — double (def 13).
- double time — a doubled wage rate, paid for working on public holidays, etc
- double-dome — an intellectual; egghead.
- double-team — to defend against or block (an opposing player) by using two players, as in football or basketball: By double-teaming the end the safety men left the other receiver in the open.
- double-time — to cause to move in double time: Double-time the troops to the mess hall.
- drama queen — Informal. a person who often has exaggerated or overly emotional reactions to events or situations: You're such a drama queen! You always have to have all the attention.
- dramaturges — Plural form of dramaturge.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- dromaeosaur — Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.
- drum-beater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- drunkometer — a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a person's breath to determine the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.
- dry measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring dry commodities, as grain or fruit. In the U.S. 2 pints = 1 quart (1.101 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (8.810 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (35.24 liters). In Great Britain 2 pints = 1 quart (1.136 liters); 4 quarts = 1 gallon (4.546 liters); 8 quarts = 1 peck (9.092 liters); 4 pecks = 1 bushel (36.37 liters); 8 bushels = 1 quarter (291.0 liters).
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- duces tecum — subpoena duces tecum.
- dulcimerist — Someone who plays the dulcimer.
- dumb barter — a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face.
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbed down — (jargon) Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- dumpishness — the state of being downhearted and dejected