11-letter words containing s, e, i, t
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- 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.
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- detasseling — Present participle of detassel.
- detectivist — a person who holds the philosophical theory of detectivism
- detectorist — a person whose hobby is using a metal detector
- deteriorism — the belief that everything is getting worse, that the universe is deteriorating or decaying
- determiners — Plural form of determiner.
- determinism — Determinism is the belief that all actions and events result from other actions, events, or situations, so people cannot in fact choose what to do.
- determinist — A determinist is someone who believes in determinism.
- detestation — intense hatred; abhorrence
- detonations — Plural form of detonation.
- detractions — Plural form of detraction.
- detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
- devastating — If you describe something as devastating, you are emphasizing that it is very harmful or damaging.
- devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
- devil's bit — devil's bit scabious
- devil's-bit — an eastern North American plant, Chamaelirium luteum, of the lily family, having a dense, drooping spike of small white flowers.
- devitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devitalize.
- devitrifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devitrify.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- devotionist — a person who practises formal devotion
- dexterities — Plural form of dexterity.
- diapositive — a positive transparency; slide
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diastematic — characterized by diastema
- diatessaron — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fourth
- dicasteries — Plural form of dicastery.
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dictyostele — a form of stele found in some ferns, containing so many gaps that it is like a network of separate strands
- die casting — the process of making a casting by forcing molten metal into a metallic mold, or die, under great pressure
- dielectrics — Plural form of dielectric.
- 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.
- digestively — In a digestive manner; by means of digestion.
- 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.
- dignitaries — a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church.
- dilettantes — Plural form of dilettante.
- dim-sighted — with weak or indistinct vision
- diminutives — Plural form of diminutive.
- dinner suit — a dinner jacket and trousers, often worn with a bow tie at formal events
- diopsimeter — an instrument for measuring the field of vision.
- dipeptidase — any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of dipeptides.
- diphosphate — a pyrophosphate.
- diplomatese — the type of language or jargon used by diplomats, thought to be excessively complicated, cautious, or vague
- direct cost — a cost that can be related directly to the production of a product or to a particular function or service.
- directories — directory
- 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.