11-letter words containing s, a, l, t
- desublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- desulfurate — to desulfurize.
- detasseling — Present participle of detassel.
- detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
- deutschland — Germany
- devitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devitalize.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- dialogistic — a speaker in a dialogue.
- digestional — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- digitalised — Medicine/Medical. to treat (a person) with a regimen of digitalis.
- digitalises — any plant belonging to the genus Digitalis, of the figwort family, especially the common foxglove, D. purpurea.
- dilatations — Plural form of dilatation.
- dilettantes — Plural form of dilettante.
- diluvialist — a person who believes in the theory of diluvialism
- diplomatese — the type of language or jargon used by diplomats, thought to be excessively complicated, cautious, or vague
- diplomatics — the science of deciphering old official documents, as charters, and of determining their authenticity, age, or the like.
- diplomatist — British Older Use. a Foreign Office employee officially engaged as a diplomat.
- disablement — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- discalceate — (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.
- discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
- disculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of disculpate.
- disentailed — Simple past tense and past participle of disentail.
- disentangle — Free (something or someone) from an entanglement; extricate.
- disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disentrayle — to pass out as if from the entrails
- dislocating — Present participle of dislocate.
- dislocation — an act or instance of dislocating.
- dismantling — Present participle of dismantle.
- disparately — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- dispatchful — of or relating to dispatch, particularly in terms of haste
- displanting — Present participle of displant.
- displeasant — displeasing
- displuviate — (of the atrium of an ancient Roman house) having roofs sloping downward and outward from a central opening.
- disregulate — Misspelling of dysregulate.
- disrelation — the absence of relation
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- dissimilate — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissimulate — to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
- dissonantly — In a dissonant manner.
- distasteful — unpleasant, offensive, or causing dislike: a distasteful chore.
- distillable — Capable of being distilled, especially capably of being distilled without chemical decomposition.
- distillates — Plural form of distillate.
- distractful — (archaic) distracting.
- dodecastyle — having 12 columns.
- dorsal root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- dot leaders — (text) A row of full stops intended to guide the reader's eye across the page from a column of variable length items on the left to the corresponding items in a column on the right. Used, for example, in the contents page of a book to tie a heading on the left to its page number on the right.
- double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- draftsmanly — Befitting a draftsman; geometrically artistic.
- drastically — acting with force or violence; violent.