11-letter words containing r, i, s, e
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- diversities — the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness: diversity of opinion.
- divestiture — the act of divesting.
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
- dock strike — an industrial dispute involving dock workers
- dormitories — Plural form of dormitory.
- dorsetshire — a county in S England. 1024 sq. mi. (2650 sq. km).
- dorsiferous — borne on the back, as the sori on most ferns.
- dorsiflexor — a muscle causing dorsiflexion.
- downriggers — Plural form of downrigger.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- draize test — a test assessing the potential of drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and other commercial products to produce irritation, pain, or damage to the human eye by studying its effect on a rabbit's eye.
- draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
- drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
- dress shirt — a man's shirt worn for formal or semiformal evening dress, usually having French cuffs and a stiff or pleated front to be fastened with studs.
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drill press — a drilling machine having a single vertical spindle.
- drillmaster — a person who trains others in something, especially routinely or mechanically.
- drive screw — a fastener with a helical thread of coarse pitch that can be driven into wood with a hammer and removed with a screwdriver.
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- driver's ed — the preparation of students for driving tests, whether at school, in a car or through online courses
- dromedaries — Plural form of dromedary.
- dronishness — the quality or capacity to drone
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- druid stone — sarsen.
- dulcimerist — Someone who plays the dulcimer.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- dundrearies — an expression for long whiskers or side-burns on the side of the face when present without a beard
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- dyssynergia — (medicine) Failure of parts of the anatomy to work together correctly.
- dyssynergic — relating to or affected by dyssynergia
- dystrophies — Plural form of dystrophy.
- e-signature — a technology that allows a person to electronically affix a signature or its equivalent to an electronic document, as when consenting to an online contract.
- eames chair — Also called LCM chair. a side chair designed by Charles Eames in 1946, having a slender tubular steel frame with a seat and back of molded plywood panels.
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- early riser — person: gets up early
- earthliness — of or relating to the earth, especially as opposed to heaven; worldly.
- east africa — a region of Africa comprising Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
- east berlin — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- east peoria — a city in central Illinois, near Peoria.
- east riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in NE England, now part of Humberside.
- easter lily — any of several white-flowered lilies that are artificially brought into bloom in early spring, especially Lilium longiflorum eximium, native to Taiwan and widely cultivated.
- easy virtue — loose morals; sexual promiscuity
- ebola virus — a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.
- ecclesiarch — a sacristan, especially of a monastery.
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
- eco-tourism — Eco-tourism is the business of providing holidays and related services which are not harmful to the environment of the area.
- ecocentrism — a philosophy or perspective that places intrinsic value on all living organisms and their natural environment, regardless of their perceived usefulness or importance to human beings.