11-letter words containing t, o, a, d, s
- devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
- devastators — Plural form of devastator.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- diacoustics — the branch of physics that deals with refracted sound
- diagnostics — the art or practice of diagnosis, esp of diseases
- dialogistic — a speaker in a dialogue.
- diapositive — a positive transparency; slide
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- diatessaron — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fourth
- diatonicism — the use of diatonic harmony; composition in a diatonic idiom.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- 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.
- dilatations — Plural form of dilatation.
- diphosphate — a pyrophosphate.
- 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.
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.
- disafforest — To deforest.
- disappoints — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disappoint.
- disasterous — Misspelling of disastrous.
- disceptator — a person who disputes or disagrees
- discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
- discreation — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- dislocating — Present participle of dislocate.
- dislocation — an act or instance of dislocating.
- dismutation — (biochemistry) A disproportionation reaction, especially in a biological context, in which oxidized and reduced forms of a chemical species are produced simultaneously.
- disordinate — opposed to or violating moral or legal order
- dispensator — a person who dispenses; distributor; administrator.
- disputation — the act of disputing or debating; verbal controversy; discussion or debate.
- disrelation — the absence of relation
- disrotatory — (organic chemistry) Describing an electrocyclic reaction in which the substituents at the interacting termini of the conjugated system rotate in opposite senses.
- dissipation — the act of dissipating.
- dissociated — Simple past tense and past participle of dissociate.
- dissociates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissociate.
- dissonantly — In a dissonant manner.
- distraction — the act of distracting.
- distractors — Plural form of distractor.
- divinations — Plural form of divination.
- do a stroke — If someone does not do a stroke of work, they are very lazy and do no work at all.
- doc martens — a brand of lace-up boots with thick lightweight resistant soles
- doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
- dodecastyle — having 12 columns.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- domesticate — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- dominations — an act or instance of dominating.
- 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.
- dorset naga — a British-grown variety of the Naga Jolokia chilli pepper, noted for its extreme heat