11-letter words containing r, e, l, i
- dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
- desacralize — to render less sacred; to secularize
- desalinator — an apparatus used in the process of desalination
- describable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- deserialize — (transitive, computing) To parse (serialized data) so as to reconstruct the original object.
- desert soil — a type of soil developed in arid climates, characterized by a lack of leaching and small humus content
- deservingly — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
- desilverize — to extract silver from (metal)
- desparingly — In a despairing manner.
- desterilize — to bring back from a sterile state; specif., to release (gold) from a neutralized position into an active position in the monetary system where it can support credit and monetary issues
- desulfurize — to remove sulfur from
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
- detribalize — to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their characteristic customs or social, religious, or other organizational features
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- dielectrics — Plural form of dielectric.
- dietary law — law dealing with foods permitted to be eaten, food preparation and combinations, and the utensils and dishes coming into contact with food.
- differently — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- diglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of two hydroxyl groups with fatty acids.
- dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- 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.
- dingleberry — Slang. a small clot of dung, as clinging to the hindquarters of an animal.
- dinner bell — signal: dinnertime
- dinner lady — female cook in school canteen
- dinner roll — a small round piece of bread provided as a side dish as part of a meal
- dinnerplate — A plate on which dinner can be served.
- diode laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- 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 rule — Direct rule is a system in which a central government rules an area which has had its own parliament or law-making organization in the past.
- 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.
- directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
- direfulness — the state or fact of being direful
- dirlotapide — A drug used to treat obesity in dogs.
- dirty linen — intimate secrets, esp those that might give rise to gossip
- disannuller — a person who disannuls
- disbeliever — A person who refuses to believe something or who lacks religious faith.
- disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- disc floret — any of the small tubular flowers at the centre of the flower head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy
- discardable — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernible — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernibly — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discerpible — Capable of being discerped.