11-letter words starting with d
- dark-haired — (of a person) having dark hair
- darlingness — the quality or characteristic of being darling, sweet, or charming
- darning egg — a rounded piece of wood or plastic used in darning to support the fabric around the hole
- darwinistic — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- das kapital — a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.
- dasht-e-lut — vast desert region of central and SE Iran, extending southward from the Dasht-e-Kavir
- dasht-i-lut — a desert plateau in central and E central Iran
- dastardized — Simple past tense and past participle of dastardize.
- dastardness — the sate or quality of being a dastard
- data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
- data logger — data logging
- data mining — Data mining involves collecting information from data stored in a database, for example in order to find out about people's shopping habits.
- data packet — packet
- date mussel — any brown, date-sized marine mussel, genus Lithophaga, that bores into rock or coral.
- dating nail — a nail driven into a wooden tie, pole, etc., bearing on its head the date of installation or last treatment of the timber.
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
- datum plane — the horizontal plane from which heights and depths are calculated
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dauntlessly — In a dauntless manner.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- dawn patrol — a flight, especially during the early days of military aviation, undertaken at dawn or early morning in order to reconnoiter enemy positions.
- dawn raider — a person or company that mounts a dawn raid
- day boarder — a child attending a boarding school who has meals at the school but sleeps at home
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- day jasmine — a West Indian shrub, Cestrum diurnum, of the nightshade family, having clusters of white flowers that are very fragrant by day.
- day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
- day nursery — A day nursery is a place where children who are too young to go to school can be left all day while their parents are at work.
- day of rest — the Sabbath; Sunday
- day release — Day release is a system in which workers spend one day each week at a college in order to study a subject connected with their work.
- day student — a student at a college or secondary school who does not reside in a facility provided by the school
- day surgery — a system in which a patient comes into hospital for a surgical procedure, has the operation, recovers and is released from hospital in the course of a single day
- day trading — the practice of buying and selling shares on the same day, often via the internet, in order to make a quick profit
- day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
- day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
- daydreamers — Plural form of daydreamer.
- daydreaming — indulgence in daydreams
- db2 catalog — (database) An IBM DB2 system table listing all objects in a database installation including hosts, servers, databases, tables and many more. Commands are provided to manage the catalog, e.g. db2 catalog database mydatabase on /databases/mydatabase to add a database reference.
- dde manager — An Oracle product that lets Microsoft Windows applications that support the Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) protocol act as front end tools for Oracle. It allows applications like Excel, Word, Ami Professional, WingZ and ToolBook to query, update, graph and report information stored in Oracle.
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- de la beche — Henry. 1796–1855, English geologist. His work led to the founding of the Geological Survey (1835)
- de la renta — Oscar, 1932–2014, U.S. fashion designer, born in the Dominican Republic.
- de la roche — Mazo [mey-zoh] /ˈmeɪ zoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1961, Canadian novelist.
- de seversky — Alexander P(rocofieff)1894-1974; U.S. aeronautical engineer, born in Russia
- de villiers — A(braham) B(enjamin), born 1984, South African cricketer; a prolific run-scorer in all forms of international cricket
- de-emphasis — a reduction in emphasis: There has been de-emphasis on athletic activities at the school.
- de-energize — to disconnect (an electrical circuit) from its source
- de-escalate — to reduce the level or intensity of (a crisis, etc)
- deaccession — to sell (a work of art) from a museum's or gallery's collections, especially with a view to acquiring funds for the purchase of other works.
- deacetylate — to remove the acetyl group from (an organic compound).