11-letter words containing is
- demoralised — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demoralise.
- demutualise — If a building society or insurance company demutualises, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a limited company.
- dental lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- deodorising — Present participle of deodorise.
- deoxidisers — Plural form of deoxidiser.
- deoxidising — Present participle of deoxidise.
- derecognise — Alternative spelling of derecognize.
- descamisado — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- desensitise — to lessen the sensitiveness of.
- desexualise — Alternative spelling of desexualize.
- despisement — contempt; despisal
- despisingly — in a despising manner; contemptuously
- destabilise — (transitive) To make something unstable.
- detectivist — a person who holds the philosophical theory of detectivism
- detectorist — a person whose hobby is using a metal detector
- deteriorism — the belief that everything is getting worse, that the universe is deteriorating or decaying
- determinism — Determinism is the belief that all actions and events result from other actions, events, or situations, so people cannot in fact choose what to do.
- determinist — A determinist is someone who believes in determinism.
- detribalise — Alt form detribalize.
- devotionist — a person who practises formal devotion
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diagnosis's — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
- diagonalise — Alternative spelling of diagonalize.
- dialogistic — a speaker in a dialogue.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diapophysis — the upper or articular surface of a transverse vertebral process
- diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
- diatonicism — the use of diatonic harmony; composition in a diatonic idiom.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomist — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dickcissels — Plural form of dickcissel.
- didacticism — intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
- digitalised — Medicine/Medical. to treat (a person) with a regimen of digitalis.
- digitalises — any plant belonging to the genus Digitalis, of the figwort family, especially the common foxglove, D. purpurea.
- diisopropyl — Having two isopropyl groups.
- diluvialism — the theory, generally abandoned in the mid-19th century, that the earth's surface was shaped by the biblical flood
- diluvialist — a person who believes in the theory of diluvialism
- diminishing — Make or become less.
- diphysitism — the belief that in Christ two distinct natures, the human and the divine, existed together
- diplomatist — British Older Use. a Foreign Office employee officially engaged as a diplomat.
- dis-favored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disablement — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disaccorded — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccord.
- disaccredit — to take away the accreditation or authorization of: to disaccredit a diplomat.
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.
- disaffected — discontented and disloyal, as toward the government or toward authority.
- disafforest — To deforest.
- disagreeing — Present participle of disagree.
- disallowing — Present participle of disallow.