11-letter words containing o, d, i, u
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- deciduously — shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs.
- declivitous — fairly steep
- decommunize — to return (property) from public to private ownership
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- deevolution — any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
- deglutition — the act of swallowing
- deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing
- degustation — the act of sampling a wide variety of foods, wines, etc.
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- deliciously — In a delicious manner.
- deliriously — Pathology. affected with or characteristic of delirium.
- delusionary — having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions: Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
- delusionist — a person prone to delusions
- demagoguing — a person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.
- demagoguism — demagoguery.
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depollution — to eliminate, clean up, or decrease pollution in (an area).
- deputations — Plural form of deputation.
- 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.
- 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
- deviousness — The characteristic of being devious; sneakiness; underhandedness.
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- diacoustics — the branch of physics that deals with refracted sound
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- diazo group — the bivalent group –N=N– united with one hydrocarbon group and another atom or group, as in benzenediazo hydroxide, C 6 H 5 N=NOH, or the bivalent group =N=N united with one hydrocarbon group, as in diazomethane, CH 2 =N=N.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- diffusional — Of or pertaining to diffusion.
- dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
- diminuendos — Plural form of diminuendo.
- diminutions — Plural form of diminution.
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- 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.
- dio cassius — ?155–?230 ad, Roman historian. His History of Rome covers the period of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire
- diplococcus — any of several spherical bacteria occurring in pairs, as Diplococcus pneumoniae.
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.
- disasterous — Misspelling of disastrous.
- disc plough — a plough that cuts by means of revolving steel discs