11-letter words containing da
- concludable — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- concordance — If there is concordance between two things, they are similar to each other or consistent with each other.
- confidantes — Plural form of confidante.
- consolidate — If you consolidate something that you have, for example power or success, you strengthen it so that it becomes more effective or secure.
- contradance — contredanse
- contradanza — A popular Cuban dance music genre of the 19th century, or a work composed in this genre.
- contredanse — a courtly Continental version of the English country dance, similar to the quadrille
- cooch dance — a sinuous, quasi-Oriental dance performed by a woman and characterized chiefly by suggestive gyrating and shaking of the body.
- coralloidal — coralloid
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- cross-nodal — having to do with interaction between the senses
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- cyanidation — (metallurgy) The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process.
- cycadaceous — belonging or pertaining to the order Cycadales.
- dacarbazine — a toxic, light-sensitive powder, C 6 H 10 N 6 O, used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and metastatic malignant melanoma.
- dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
- dactylogram — a fingerprint
- dactylology — the method of using manual sign language, as in communicating with deaf people
- dactylonomy — The use of one's fingers to express numbers.
- dad dancing — enthusiastic but inelegant dancing to pop music, regarded as typical of middle-aged men
- daddy track — a career path for men who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- daemonology — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
- daffynition — A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
- daggerboard — a light bladelike board inserted into the water through a slot in the keel of a boat to reduce keeling and leeway
- daily dozen — gymnastic setting-up exercises (originally twelve) done daily
- daily grind — everyday work routine
- daimyo bond — a bearer bond issued in Japan and the eurobond market by the World Bank
- dairy breed — any of several breeds of cattle developed primarily for production of milk rather than meat, as Ayrshire, Guernsey, Holstein, and Jersey breeds.
- 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.
- dalton plan — a system devised to encourage pupils to learn and develop at their own speed, using libraries and other sources to complete long assignments
- 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.
- damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- damselflies — Plural form of damselfly.
- dance drama — drama performed through dance movements, frequently with dialogue.
- dance floor — In a restaurant or night club, the dance floor is the area where people can dance.
- 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 fever — (in the West Indies) dengue.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- danger cave — a deep, stratified site in the eastern Great Basin, in Utah, occupied by Amerindian cultures from at least 7000 b.c. to historic times.
- danger list — on