11-letter words containing r, i, d, e, u
- countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
- countryfied — countrified
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- decarburize — decarbonize
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decursively — in a decursive manner
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- deliriously — Pathology. affected with or characteristic of delirium.
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- delusionary — having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions: Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
- delustering — a chemical process for reducing the luster of rayon yarns by adding a finely divided pigment to the spinning solution.
- demetrius i — (Poliorcetes) 337?–283 b.c, king of Macedonia 294–286 (son of Antigonus I).
- demi-hunter — a watch having a hinged case with a hole in the lid permitting the time to be seen even when the lid is closed.
- denaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturize.
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- depauperize — to make (a person) poor
- derailleurs — Plural form of derailleur.
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- destructing — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- desulfurize — to remove sulfur from
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- dinner suit — a dinner jacket and trousers, often worn with a bow tie at formal events
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- 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.
- direfulness — the state or fact of being direful
- dirt dauber — mud dauber.
- disannuller — a person who disannuls