11-Letter Words Starting with D

The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.

How daredevils live (wordplay)

In a perilous manner

In a risky manner

Daunomycin

Deaconess

ACTIVATOR any agency bringing about activation; (Biol.) a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription.

Deadlock

Deaeration

DEAMINATE

Disembarkation.

Valley outlet

Fellows around the City misheard the figures

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

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

To deprive of carbonic acid.

Green New Deal verb

Brake

DECEPTION The act of deceiving or misleading.

Decimation

Decision

""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.""

Noisy and rhetorical

Rhetorical

It begins: "When in the Course... "

It begins: "When in the Course . . . "

It begins "When in the Course . . . "

Like some legal judgments

Declension

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

Moderately steep.

COLLATING collate

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

Low neckline on a dress

More of the quip

Low-cut neckline

COLONIZED colonize

Decolonize

COLORIZED colorize

""Inflected form of COLORIZER Inflected form of COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

Decolorize

Decolour

Decomposer

Breaking down

""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.""

Decongest

Dismantle (something)

Break down

Churchmen wanting a heavy vehicle reduced time to break down

Honored soldier's collection

Jack-o'-lanterns, for example

Coordinates new colour schemes

""To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.""

DECOUPAGE

Decrease in loudness (music)

With decreasing loudness (mus.)

(Musically) become quieter

Decryption

""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.""

Cite Addison inaccurately in inscriptions

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

Defalcator

Defamation

Defecation

Quip, Part 4

Deflection

""The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. as, the defloration if a virgin.""

Deflowerer

Deflower

Defocus

Action that makes leaves leave

The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

Defoliator

""A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.""

Old author and pop star about right way to ruin the earth

""FORMALIZE To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.""

Alteration of shape

Disfigurement

""FORMATIVE Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. as, the formative arts.""

Deformity

""Inflected form of GLAMORIZE Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

Trained a dog to suffer humiliation

Trained a dog that's going off, going off

Humiliation.

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

Excessive loss of water from body

Significant loss of water

Dehydrator

Making a god of

Plural noun or verb form

Eaten cold it could provide enjoyment

Election date endlessly changed for amusement

Enjoyment of naughty cat in act of destruction

Convention groups.

Convention groups

True oilseed (anagram) - harmful

Causing harm or damage

Having a harmful effect

""Delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained. as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.""

Very pleasing; delightful.

Vivid verbal description

Sketch

Delineator

With wild ecstasy

In a frantic manner

LOCALIZED localize

Delocalize

DELUSION the act of {deluding=v}

Rabble-rouser's forte

Rabble-rousing activity

Rabble-rousing behaviour

DEMAGOGUE A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

Boundary

Half-divine female

MOBILIZED mobilize

Demobilize

Western nations

Give power to the people

Make accessible for everyone

MODULATED modulate

Demodulate

""An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.""

""The study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.""

Relating to the structure of populations

Population-related

Relating to the statistical study of populations

Demoiselle

Demolisher

Demolish

Derby draw

MONETIZED monetize

Demonetize

Demonical

Fiend, say, hogging start of road show

Protest (in public)

Take part in public protest

""Made less hopeful or enthusiastic; rendered pessimistic; as, the demoralized Iraqi ground troops put up little resistance.as, the demoralized Iraqi ground troops put up little resistance.""

MORALIZER One who moralizes.

Demoralize

""Capable of being dismounted; -- said of a form of rim, for an automobile wheel, which can be removed with its tire from the wheel.""

Dendrogram

""Botany the branch of botany that studies trees. ; dendrologist , n . ; dendrologic, dendrological ,""

Denegation

""NERVATION The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.""

Calumny? Snarl and ignore it

Unfair criticism

Disparagement

Denigrator

Same as denigrating.denigrating.

NOMINATED nominate

Names

Names.

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

Denotation

Denotement

Novel windups

Denudation

Deodorizer

ODORIZING odorize

The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

Deoxidizer

OXIDIZING oxidize

Turn biomass to fuel, for example

O gee! Next day possibly the gas is to be extracted

""A pentose (C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.""

Depilation

In a deploring manner.

Deployment

POLARIZED polarize

""A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.""

Depolarize

Depolish

Removed the dads (wordplay)

Depopulate

The expelling of a foreigner from a country

What's patriot done wrong to become exile (wordplay)

Deportment

Courtroom testimony.

Detraction; depreciation.

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

Dismissive of French plundering clubs for date

Disparaging of French before Conservative welcomes accountant

Disparager

Plundering.

Despoilment

Depredator

""Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion. as, a depredatory incursion.""

Booms' opposites

Severe lack of essentials

Deprogram

Deputation

Neglect before line in speech

Origins

Dermatogen

Science of the skin

Study of skin disorders

Branch of medicine concerned with the skin

Derogation

Salt remover

Descension

Do nice strip perhaps showing outline

Portrayal

Descriptor

Violently disrespectful treatment

Damage of anything sacred

The offence of considerate vandalism

Desecrator

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

Desiccator

Official title or description

Appointment

Term Democrat used for Republican in giving up office

Namers.

Serving to designate; designative; indicating.

Desolation

Desorption

Cole Younger, et al.

A rope ends it (wordplay)

Complete lack of hope

Rashness of Iran to speed development

Despoliation.

Despondency.

The blues

Distant one I set out for (wordplay)

Where one is going

Place to which one is travelling

Recompense initially withheld by duke - result, penury

Poverty

Ruin, wreckage

... R-U-I-N

Ruin

In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.

Do retire, eat freely, and go to pot!

It has 'rot' and 'die' inside

Go downhill and stop, I pontificate

Hating to be almost put off before Crewe, perhaps

Loathing

Hatred

DETONATE to cause to explode

Detonation

Detoxicant

DETOXICATE to remove poison from.

Detoxicate

Detoxify

Calumnies

A form of colorblindness characterized by insensitivity to green.

DEUTERATE

Deutoplasm

Diminution of worth.

Currency maneuver

Destruction of old Chester depot

Great damage or grief

Ruin, destruction

Devastator

Capable of being developed.

Process of growth

Cluster of apartment houses

New product/idea; state of growth

Scheming nature

VOCALIZED vocalize