11-letter words containing u, t, e, r
- 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.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- cut a caper — to skip or jump playfully
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cutter deck — the blade housing on a power mower.
- cysticercus — an encysted larval form of many tapeworms, consisting of a head (scolex) inverted in a fluid-filled bladder
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- debt burden — A debt burden is a large amount of money that one country or organization owes to another and which they find very difficult to repay.
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- decluttered — Simple past tense and past participle of declutter.
- 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.
- decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
- deculturate — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing
- degranulate — (of a cell) lose or release granules of a substance, typically as part of an immune reaction.
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- delusterant — a chemical agent, as titanium dioxide, used in reducing the sheen of a yarn or fabric.
- delustering — a chemical process for reducing the luster of rayon yarns by adding a finely divided pigment to the spinning solution.
- demetrius i — (Poliorcetes) 337?–283 b.c, king of Macedonia 294–286 (son of Antigonus I).
- demi-hunter — a watch having a hinged case with a hole in the lid permitting the time to be seen even when the lid is closed.
- demodulator — a device used in demodulation
- demy quarto — a book size, 113⁄4 by 85⁄8 inches
- denaturated — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturate.
- denaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturize.
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- depauperate — poor; impoverished
- depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
- deregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of deregulate.
- deregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deregulate.
- desaturated — (of a color) formed by mixing a color of the spectrum with white.
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- 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.
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- destructors — Plural form of destructor.
- destructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- desulfurate — to desulfurize.
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.