11-letter words containing m, s, t, a
- democratise — To make democratic.
- democratism — The principles or spirit of a democracy.
- demodulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demodulate.
- demonstrant — demonstrator (def 2).
- demonstrate — If you demonstrate a particular skill, quality, or feeling, you show by your actions that you have it.
- demutualise — If a building society or insurance company demutualises, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a limited company.
- departments — Plural form of department.
- derailments — Plural form of derailment.
- dermoplasty — skin grafting.
- désagrément — something disagreeable
- desert palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
- 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.
- detachments — Plural form of detachment.
- 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
- diastematic — characterized by diastema
- diatonicism — the use of diatonic harmony; composition in a diatonic idiom.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- didacticism — intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
- diplomatese — the type of language or jargon used by diplomats, thought to be excessively complicated, cautious, or vague
- diplomatics — the science of deciphering old official documents, as charters, and of determining their authenticity, age, or the like.
- diplomatist — British Older Use. a Foreign Office employee officially engaged as a diplomat.
- disablement — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.
- disarmament — the act or an instance of disarming.
- disbandment — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
- discardment — the act or process of discarding
- dismantling — Present participle of dismantle.
- dismutation — (biochemistry) A disproportionation reaction, especially in a biological context, in which oxidized and reduced forms of a chemical species are produced simultaneously.
- disseminate — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissimilate — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissimulate — to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
- doc martens — a brand of lace-up boots with thick lightweight resistant soles
- domesticate — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- dominations — an act or instance of dominating.
- draftsmanly — Befitting a draftsman; geometrically artistic.
- draftswoman — a woman employed in making mechanical drawings.
- draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
- dramaticism — a dramatic character or way of behaving
- dramatising — Present participle of dramatise.
- dramaturges — Plural form of dramaturge.
- draughtsman — a checker, as used in the game of checkers.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- draw stumps — to close play, as by pulling out the stumps
- draw trumps — to play the trump suit until the opponents have none left
- drillmaster — a person who trains others in something, especially routinely or mechanically.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- dustbin man — (in British English) a man that is employed to collect domestic refuse
- dynasticism — a system of government in which the rulers are all drawn from the same family