11-letter words containing u, n, d, e, c
- counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
- counterdrug — Against the trafficking of drugs.
- countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
- counterraid — a retaliatory raid on an enemy
- countersued — Simple past tense and past participle of countersue.
- counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
- countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
- countryfied — countrified
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
- cudgellings — beatings with a cudgel
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- dance music — music that is suitable for dancing
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- declutching — Present participle of declutch.
- decommunize — to return (property) from public to private ownership
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- decussating — Present participle of decussate.
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- defunctness — The state or quality of being defunct.
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- delinquency — Delinquency is criminal behaviour, especially that of young people.
- delinquincy — Alternative form of delinquency.
- denticulate — very finely toothed
- denunciated — Simple past tense and past participle of denunciate.
- denunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denunciate.
- destructing — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- detumescent — characterized by detumescence
- deutschland — Germany
- die-cutting — the cutting by machine of paper or card into shapes with sharp steel knives, such as in the manufacture of cardboard boxes
- discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disjunctive — serving or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; distinguishing.
- disjuncture — the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined; disjunction.
- distincture — distinctness
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.