11-letter words starting with de
- denaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturize.
- denazifying — Present participle of denazify.
- dendrachate — a variety of agate with black or brown tree-like markings, caused by impurities
- dendritical — Alternative form of dendritic.
- dendroglyph — the art of carving in the bark of a living tree, esp as practised by the aboriginal peoples of New Zealand
- dendrograms — Plural form of dendrogram.
- dendrolatry — the worship of trees
- dendrometer — an instrument used for measuring trees
- dendrophile — One who loves trees.
- denervation — to cut off the nerve supply from (an organ or body part) by surgery or anesthetic block.
- deniability — the condition of being deniable
- denigrating — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- denigrative — tending to denigrate
- denigratory — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- denitration — Chemistry. to free from nitric acid or nitrates; remove oxides of nitrogen from.
- denitrified — Simple past tense and past participle of denitrify.
- denitrifier — an agent, often bacterial, which denitrifies
- denizenship — the status of a denizen
- denominable — Capable of being denominated or named.
- denominated — to give a name to; denote; designate.
- denominator — In mathematics, the denominator is the number which appears under the line in a fraction.
- denormalize — (transitive, databases) To add redundancy to (a database schema), the opposite of normalization, typically in order to optimize its performance.
- denotations — Plural form of denotation.
- denouements — Plural form of denouement.
- densimeters — Plural form of densimeter.
- dental care — Dental care is medical care and hygiene relating to your teeth.
- dental lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- dental pulp — pulp (def 4).
- denticulate — very finely toothed
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- dentil band — (in classical architecture) a molding occupying the position of a row of dentils and often cut to resemble one.
- dentolabial — (phonetics) articulated with the upper lip and lower teeth.
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- denunciated — Simple past tense and past participle of denunciate.
- denunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denunciate.
- denver boot — A Denver boot is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The driver has to pay to have the device removed.
- deo gratias — thanks be to God
- deo volente — God willing
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- deodorising — Present participle of deodorise.
- deodorizers — Plural form of deodorizer.
- deodorizing — Present participle of deodorize.
- deoxidation — (mineralogy) The process of extracting the oxygen content of a dissolved oxide, or of removing dissolved oxygen, with the aid of a reducing agent.
- deoxidisers — Plural form of deoxidiser.
- deoxidising — Present participle of deoxidise.
- deoxidizing — Present participle of deoxidize.
- deoxygenate — to remove oxygen from (water, air, etc)
- deoxygenize — deoxygenate.