11-letter words containing s, d, a
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
- 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.
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- cut sb dead — If you see someone you know and cut them dead, you ignore them.
- cycadaceous — belonging or pertaining to the order Cycadales.
- cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
- daisy chain — A daisy chain is a string of daisies that have been joined together by their stems to make a necklace.
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- damascening — Present participle of damascene.
- damask rose — a rose, Rosa damascena, native to Asia and cultivated for its pink or red fragrant flowers, which are used to make the perfume attar
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- damselflies — Plural form of damselfly.
- dance music — music that is suitable for dancing
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- danger list — on
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- danish loaf — a large white loaf with a centre split having the top crust dusted with flour, esp one baked on the sole of the oven
- dardanelles — the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara, separating European from Asian Turkey
- darlingness — the quality or characteristic of being darling, sweet, or charming
- darwinistic — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- das kapital — a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.
- dasht-e-lut — vast desert region of central and SE Iran, extending southward from the Dasht-e-Kavir
- dasht-i-lut — a desert plateau in central and E central Iran
- dastardized — Simple past tense and past participle of dastardize.
- dastardness — the sate or quality of being a dastard
- date mussel — any brown, date-sized marine mussel, genus Lithophaga, that bores into rock or coral.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dauntlessly — In a dauntless manner.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- day jasmine — a West Indian shrub, Cestrum diurnum, of the nightshade family, having clusters of white flowers that are very fragrant by day.
- day nursery — A day nursery is a place where children who are too young to go to school can be left all day while their parents are at work.
- day of rest — the Sabbath; Sunday
- day release — Day release is a system in which workers spend one day each week at a college in order to study a subject connected with their work.
- day student — a student at a college or secondary school who does not reside in a facility provided by the school
- day surgery — a system in which a patient comes into hospital for a surgical procedure, has the operation, recovers and is released from hospital in the course of a single day
- daydreamers — Plural form of daydreamer.
- de-emphasis — a reduction in emphasis: There has been de-emphasis on athletic activities at the school.
- de-escalate — to reduce the level or intensity of (a crisis, etc)
- deaccession — to sell (a work of art) from a museum's or gallery's collections, especially with a view to acquiring funds for the purchase of other works.
- deacon seat — a bench running most of the length of a bunkhouse in a lumbering camp.
- deaconesses — Plural form of deaconess.