11-letter words containing r, e, c, a, t
- decorticate — to remove the bark or some other outer layer from
- decremental — relating to a small amount that is taken away
- decrepitate — to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
- deculturate — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- defeaticrat — a member or supporter of the Democratic Party, echoing the belief among many opponents that it promoted a defeatist attitude to the situation in Iraq following the US-led invasion of 2003
- deflazacort — A glucocorticoid prodrug used as an anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant.
- delta force — (in the US) an élite army unit involved in counterterrorist operations abroad
- demarcating — Present participle of demarcate.
- demarcation — Demarcation is the establishment of boundaries or limits separating two areas, groups, or things.
- demarcative — (of a phonological feature) serving to indicate the beginning or end of each successive word in an utterance, as word-initial stress in Hungarian or penultimate stress in Polish.
- 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.
- dendrachate — a variety of agate with black or brown tree-like markings, caused by impurities
- dendritical — Alternative form of dendritic.
- dental care — Dental care is medical care and hygiene relating to your teeth.
- deprecating — A deprecating attitude, gesture, or remark shows that you think that something is not very good, especially something associated with yourself.
- deprecation — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecative — serving to deprecate; deprecatory.
- deprecatory — expressing disapproval; protesting
- depreciated — Simple past tense and past participle of depreciate; reduced in value over time.
- depreciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depreciate.
- depreciator — One who depreciates.
- deracinated — to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate.
- deracinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deracinate Pulls up by the roots.
- dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- desecrating — Present participle of desecrate.
- desecration — a desecrating or being desecrated
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- detractions — Plural form of detraction.
- detractress — a female detractor
- 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
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- dicasteries — Plural form of dicastery.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- diffractive — causing or pertaining to diffraction.
- dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
- dipterocarp — A tall forest tree from which are obtained resins and timber for the export trade, occurring mainly in Southeast Asia.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- direct-dial — being a telephone or telephone system enabling long-distance calls to be direct-dialed.
- directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directorate — the office of a director.
- directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
- disaccredit — to take away the accreditation or authorization of: to disaccredit a diplomat.
- discardment — the act or process of discarding