11-letter words starting with de
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- defeasances — Plural form of defeasance.
- defeaticrat — a member or supporter of the Democratic Party, echoing the belief among many opponents that it promoted a defeatist attitude to the situation in Iraq following the US-led invasion of 2003
- defectively — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- defeminized — Simple past tense and past participle of defeminize.
- defenceless — If someone or something is defenceless, they are weak and unable to defend themselves properly.
- defensative — a thing that offers protection or defence, esp a dressing, etc, that protects against infection or injury
- defenseless — If someone or something is defenseless, they are weak and unable to defend themselves properly.
- defensively — serving to defend; protective: defensive armament.
- deferential — Someone who is deferential is polite and respectful towards someone else.
- defervesced — to undergo defervescence.
- defeudalize — to reverse the process of feudalization
- defiantness — the state or quality of being defiant
- defibrinate — to divest of fibrin or the protein formed in blood during clotting
- deficiently — In a deficient manner.
- defilements — Plural form of defilement.
- defiliation — the denial of or lack of a male child
- definiendum — something to be defined, esp the term or phrase to be accounted for in a dictionary entry
- definientia — Plural form of definiens.
- definitions — the formal statement of the meaning or significance of a word, phrase, idiom, etc., as found in dictionaries. An online dictionary resource, such as Dictionary.com, can give users direct, immediate access to the definitions of a term, allowing them to compare definitions from various dictionaries and stay up to date with an ever-expanding vocabulary.
- definitives — Plural form of definitive.
- deflagrable — having the ability to burst into flames quickly
- deflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of deflagrate.
- deflagrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflagrate.
- deflagrator — a piece of equipment for bringing about deflagration
- deflazacort — A glucocorticoid prodrug used as an anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant.
- deflectable — able to be deflected
- deflections — Plural form of deflection.
- defloration — the act of deflowering
- deflowering — Present participle of deflower.
- defoliating — Present participle of defoliate.
- defoliation — to strip (a tree, bush, etc.) of leaves.
- deforcement — (legal) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
- deforesting — Present participle of deforest.
- deformalize — to make (something) less formal
- deformation — the act of deforming; distortion
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- deformities — Plural form of deformity.
- defunctness — The state or quality of being defunct.
- deganawidah — ("The Peacemaker") flourished 1550–1600, Huron prophet, cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy.
- degendering — to free from any association with or dependence on gender: to degenderize employment policies.
- degenderize — to free from any association with or dependence on gender: to degenderize employment policies.
- degenerated — to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate: The morale of the soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.
- degenerates — Plural form of degenerate.
- degerminate — degerm (def 2).
- deglaciated — having had glaciation removed
- deglamorize — to make (a person or thing) less glamorous
- deglutinate — to extract the gluten from (a cereal, esp wheat)
- deglutition — the act of swallowing
- deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing