11-letter words starting with de
- decelerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decelerate.
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
- decennaries — Plural form of decennary.
- decennially — Every ten years.
- decentering — to put out of center.
- deceptively — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- decerebrate — to remove the brain or a large section of the brain or to cut the spinal cord at the level of the brain stem of (a person or animal)
- decerebrize — to remove the cerebrum of (an animal)
- decertified — Simple past tense and past participle of decertify.
- decidedness — The state or quality of being decided.
- deciduously — shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs.
- decimalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decimalize.
- decimalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimalize.
- decimations — Plural form of decimation.
- deciphering — Present participle of decipher.
- decisioning — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- deck bridge — a bridge with an upper horizontal beam that carries the roadway
- deck tennis — a game played on board ship in which a quoit is tossed to and fro across a high net on a small court resembling a tennis court
- deck-access — (of a block of flats) having a continuous inset balcony at each level onto which the front door of each flat on that level opens
- deckle edge — the rough edge of handmade paper, caused by pulp seeping between the mould and the deckle: often left as ornamentation in fine books and writing papers
- 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.