13-letter words containing r, i, d
- deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
- deep-freezing — the process of freezing food at a very low temperature for storage
- defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
- defamiliarize — to make (something well-known or well-established) seem unfamiliar, strange, disconcerting, etc., as in order to reinterpret or subvert it
- deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
- defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- defragmenting — Present participle of defragment.
- degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
- degradational — (geology) Pertaining to or formed by degradation.
- degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
- dehumidifiers — Plural form of dehumidifier.
- dehydrogenize — dehydrogenate.
- deintegration — an act or instance of integrating a racial, religious, or ethnic group.
- deleteriously — In a deleterious manner; harmfully.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
- deliriousness — The characteristic of being delirious.
- delivery note — a document that accompanies a delivery of goods
- delivery room — In a hospital, the delivery room is the room where women give birth to their babies.
- demand driven — A demand driven architecture/language performs computations when the result is required by some other computation. E.g. Imperial College's ALICE running HOPE. See also data flow, lazy evaluation, reduction.
- dematerialise — Alternative spelling of dematerialize.
- dematerialize — to cease to have material existence, as in science fiction or spiritualism
- demeritorious — a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency: If you receive four demerits during a term, you will be expelled from school.
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- demi-detourne — a turn in which the dancer on pointe or demi-pointe completes a half turn toward the back foot and lowers the heels, with the back foot finishing in front.
- demilitarized — Declared free of all military activity.
- demilitarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demilitarize.
- demineralized — From which all minerals have been removed.
- demineralizer — a substance or device that causes demineralization
- demineralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demineralize.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- demonstrating — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- demonstration — A demonstration is a march or gathering which people take part in to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- demultiplexer — a type of electronic circuit which receives a single input signal and selects one of multiple possible output routes to which to transmit the signal
- denaturalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturalize.
- denaturations — Plural form of denaturation.
- dendrological — Of, pertaining to dendrology.
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- densitometers — Plural form of densitometer.
- densitometric — Of or pertaining to densitometry.
- dental caries — cavity formation in teeth caused by bacteria that attach to teeth and form acids in the presence of sucrose, other sugars, and refined starches; tooth decay.