11-letter words containing m, o, c
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dark comedy — a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- decameronic — resembling or having characteristics of the Decameron written by Boccaccio
- decimations — Plural form of decimation.
- declamation — a rhetorical or emotional speech, made esp in order to protest or condemn; tirade
- declamatory — A declamatory phrase, statement, or way of speaking is dramatic and confident.
- decommunize — to return (property) from public to private ownership
- decompilers — Plural form of decompiler.
- decomposers — Plural form of decomposer.
- decomposing — Present participle of decompose.
- decomposite — a composite element that is itself composed of other elements
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- deforcement — (legal) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
- demagogical — Demagogic.
- demarcation — Demarcation is the establishment of boundaries or limits separating two areas, groups, or things.
- demi-cannon — a large cannon of the 16th century, having a bore of about 6½ inches (17 cm) and firing a shot of from 30 to 36 pounds (14 to 16 kg).
- democracies — Plural form of democracy.
- democratise — To make democratic.
- democratism — The principles or spirit of a democracy.
- democratize — If a country or a system is democratized, it is made democratic.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- demoniacism — the state or practice of being possessed by a demon
- demonically — In a demonic way.
- demonocracy — power of or rule by demons
- demy octavo — a book size, 81⁄2 by 51⁄2 inches
- dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- dermotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- descamisado — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- desmodromic — (of mechanisms, almost exclusively of valves) that are controlled in both directions of their movement. A desmodromic valve is one which is actively both opened and closed by a mechanism rather than by a spring
- 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
- diamondback — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- diatonicism — the use of diatonic harmony; composition in a diatonic idiom.
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- 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.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
- dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
- dimethicone — Polydimethylsiloxane.
- diplomacies — Plural form of diplomacy.
- diplomatics — the science of deciphering old official documents, as charters, and of determining their authenticity, age, or the like.
- dipsomaniac — a person with an irresistible craving for alcoholic drink.
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.