11-letter words containing dec
- declamation — a rhetorical or emotional speech, made esp in order to protest or condemn; tirade
- declamatory — A declamatory phrase, statement, or way of speaking is dramatic and confident.
- declaration — A declaration is an official announcement or statement.
- declarative — making a statement or assertion
- declarators — Plural form of declarator.
- declaratory — (of a statute) stating the existing law on a particular subject; explanatory
- declare for — If you declare for something or someone, you say that you are in favour of them.
- declarement — (obsolete) declaration.
- declensions — Plural form of declension.
- declination — the angular distance, esp in degrees, of a star, planet, etc, from the celestial equator measured north (positive) or south (negative) along the great circle passing through the celestial poles and the body
- declinatory — a plea that has the aim of demonstrating that the accused is exempt from legal authority and punishment
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- declivities — a downward slope, as of ground (opposed to acclivity).
- declivitous — fairly steep
- declutching — Present participle of declutch.
- decluttered — Simple past tense and past participle of declutter.
- decocainize — To remove cocaine from.
- decoherence — the process in which a system's behaviour changes from that which can be explained by quantum mechanics to that which can be explained by classical mechanics
- decoic acid — capric acid.
- decollating — Present participle of decollate.
- decollation — to behead; decapitate.
- decolletage — the low-cut neckline of a woman's garment
- decolonised — Simple past tense and past participle of decolonise.
- decolonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decolonize.
- decolonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decolonize.
- decolorants — Plural form of decolorant.
- decolorized — Simple past tense and past participle of decolorize.
- decolorizer — a substance that removes colour
- decommunize — to return (property) from public to private ownership
- decompilers — Plural form of decompiler.
- decomposers — Plural form of decomposer.
- decomposing — Present participle of decompose.
- decomposite — a composite element that is itself composed of other elements
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- decondition — to take away or cancel conditioned responses in (a person)
- decongested — Simple past tense and past participle of decongest.
- 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.
- decorations — Plural form of decoration.
- decorrelate — To reduce the correlation between signals.
- decorticate — to remove the bark or some other outer layer from
- decree nisi — A decree nisi is an order made by a court which states that a divorce must take place at a certain time in the future unless a good reason is produced to prevent this.
- decremental — relating to a small amount that is taken away
- decremented — Simple past tense and past participle of decrement.
- decrepitate — to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
- decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
- decrescendo — with a gradual decrease in loudness; diminuendo: often used as a musical direction: symbol 57381
- 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
- decursively — in a decursive manner