11-Letter Words Starting with D

""The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.""

""The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. as, the practice declamation by students.""

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""The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. as, declination of the head.""

The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

""CONDITION Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.""

""Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc. as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.""

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; setoff.

Making a god of

Eaten cold it could provide enjoyment

Election date endlessly changed for amusement

Enjoyment of naughty cat in act of destruction

Boundary

The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.

Neglect before line in speech

Do nice strip perhaps showing outline

Portrayal

Violently disrespectful treatment

Damage of anything sacred

The offence of considerate vandalism

""The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.""

Ruin, wreckage

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Ruin

""A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.""

""The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.""

FUNCTION to perform or act

""The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.as, the disjunction of soul and body.""

Where we be (wordplay)

Disturbance of the normal position

Shoulder injury

Difference isn't changing, in manner of speaking

Prestige gained by outstanding exam candidates

Celebrity makes speech about last of his money

It stops one concentrating

Agitated mental state

Extreme agitation

""An antibiotic obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces peuceticus, used as an anticancer drug.""

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Doubling up

Abnormal operation