11-letter words containing r, o, d, e
- desperadoes — Plural form of desperado.
- desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
- destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- destructors — Plural form of destructor.
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- detectorist — a person whose hobby is using a metal detector
- deteriorate — If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
- deteriorism — the belief that everything is getting worse, that the universe is deteriorating or decaying
- deteriority — the quality of being inferior or worse
- detractions — Plural form of detraction.
- detritivore — an organism that uses organic waste as a food source, as certain insects.
- detritovore — any organism that feeds on detritus
- deuce court — the receiver's right-hand service court, into which the ball is served when the score is deuce.
- deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
- deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
- deuterogamy — a marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse
- deuteronomy — the fifth book of the Old Testament, containing a second statement of the Mosaic Law
- deuterotoky — parthenogenesis in which both males and females are produced
- devastators — Plural form of devastator.
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- dexiocardia — dextrocardia.
- dexiotropic — (of cleavage) spiral; twisting in a spiral fashion from left to right
- dexterously — skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body.
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- diamorphine — heroin.
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diatessaron — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fourth
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- didgeridoos — Plural form of didgeridoo.
- digressions — Plural form of digression.
- 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.
- dinner fork — a fork used to eat the main course of a meal.
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- dinner roll — a small round piece of bread provided as a side dish as part of a meal
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- diode laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
- diopsimeter — an instrument for measuring the field of vision.
- dioptometer — an instrument for measuring the refraction of the eye.
- diphtheroid — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- dipterocarp — A tall forest tree from which are obtained resins and timber for the export trade, occurring mainly in Southeast Asia.
- direct cost — a cost that can be related directly to the production of a product or to a particular function or service.
- directed oc — (language) (Doc) A language related to Oc.
- directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.