11-Letter Words Starting with DE

ACIDIFIED acidify

Deacidify

Deaconess

Mine might be switched off!

Deactivate

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.

Deadening

Traveling in a bomber just for the ride

Tidying up after flowering

Deadlift

Deadlock

Deadpanner

Deadpan

Deadweight

Deaeration

Deafening

Lotus positions (wordplay)

DEAMINATE

DEAMINATE

Deathless

Disembarkation.

Debasement

Debatement

Argued about one on fire becoming weakened

Debilitate

Valley outlet

""The surgical excision of dead, contaminated, or damaged tissue, and foreign matter, especially from a wound.""

Decadency

Fellows around the City misheard the figures

CALCIFIED calcify

Decalcify

Bivouac break-ups

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

Beheaded

Decapitate

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

To deprive of carbonic acid.

Green New Deal verb

To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

Decathlete

With intent to deceive.

Deceiving

Slowed down

Spain alerted to change after last month and slowed down

Decelerate

Brake

The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.

Decennial

Decenter

DECEPTION The act of deceiving or misleading.

So as to mislead

In a false fashion*

CEREBRATE To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

CERTIFIED certify

Decertify

DECIDED decide

""DECIMALIZE To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. as, to decimalize the currency.""

Decimalize

Decimation

Decipherer

Decipher

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 . . . "

Shown

Like some legal judgments

Declension

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

Downward slopes

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

DECREMENT The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

""To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt. as, to decrepitate salt.""

Infirmity of old age

Worn-out condition.

State of infirmity

Decrease in loudness (music)

With decreasing loudness (mus.)

(Musically) become quieter

Decryption

""DECUSSATE To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.""

""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.""

Dedicated

Cite Addison inaccurately in inscriptions

Interest and contributions, for example

Take off 4 and see with logic

Deerberry

Cloth cap (for a hunter?)

Voice of Bambi (wordplay)

Sherlock Holmes accessory

Damages to external appearance

""DEFALCATE To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.""

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

Defalcator

Defamation

Defeasance

Defecation

Defective

FEMINIZED feminize

Defeminize

Unprotected

So as to avoid criticism

Feel trained to be submissive

Showing respect

Submissive

Deferrable

""To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.""

Deficient

Defilement

Definement

Pl. definienda (-d ) A word or expression that is being defined.

""Pl. definientia (- n sh - , -sh ) The word or words serving to define another word or expression, as in a dictionary entry.""

Quip, Part 4

Definitive

DEFINITIZE

Definitize

Definitude

""DEFLAGRATE To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.""

Deflagrate

Capable of being deflected.

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

Went from bad to worse

Forgotten about defect that's returned and grown worse

Worsened

Worsens steadily

Reprobates

Rakes

GLACIATED glaciate

""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.

DEGRADE to {debase=v}

In a degrading manner.

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

Dehiscence

HUMANIZED humanize

Dehumanize

HYDRATING hydrate

Excessive loss of water from body

Significant loss of water

Dehydrator

Making a god of

Plural noun or verb form

After the manner of deists.

LAMINATED laminate

Delaminate

Delectable

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

Considered carefully

Considered not to be accidental at start of day

Considered

Considers food shop reprimands

Ponders composer taking charge

Considers carefully

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

With delight; gladly.

Very pleasing; delightful.

DELINEATE Delineated; portrayed.

Vivid verbal description

Sketch

DELINEATE Delineated; portrayed.

Delineator

Misdeeds, often juvenile

Failure in duty; crime

Early criminal behaviour

Young hooligans

Queen regularly insulted reformed offenders

Capital mission, one might say, changed state

Deliquesce

With wild ecstasy

In a frantic manner

""Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.""

Burt Reynolds film

Ned Beatty's film debut, 1972

Clever Diane comes to the rescue

A fellow with a round bowler, perhaps

Male who goes round dropping off goods

Courier called up about chauffeur's uniform (wordplay)

Inflected form of LIVERYMEN Inflected form of LIVERY a uniform worn by servants

LOCALIZED localize

Delocalize

DELPHIC like an oracle

Delphinium

DELUSION the act of {deluding=v}

Deluster

Render a credit card useless, e.g

Render a credit card useless, for example

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.

Demanding

DEMARCATE To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.

Boundary

Demerger

Half-divine female

DEMIURGIC Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

MOBILIZED mobilize

Demobilize

Western nations