12-letter words containing a, c, i, d, e
- deracinating — Present participle of deracinate Pulling up by the roots.
- deracination — to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate.
- deradicalise — to free from radical ideas, goals, or elements: The more conservative politicians were trying to deradicalize the liberation movement.
- deradicalize — to free from radical ideas, goals, or elements: The more conservative politicians were trying to deradicalize the liberation movement.
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- desacralized — Simple past tense and past participle of desacralize.
- desacralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desacralize.
- desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
- descamisados — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- descensional — relating to descension
- desecrations — Plural form of desecration.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- desocialized — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- detoxicating — Present participle of detoxicate.
- detoxication — Biochemistry. the metabolic process by which toxins are changed into less toxic or more readily excretable substances.
- dextrocardia — the abnormal location of the heart in the right side of the chest
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- dialectician — an expert in dialectic; logician
- dialecticism — the influence of dialect
- dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- dicarpellary — having two carpels
- dictionaries — Plural form of dictionary.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- diego garcia — chief island of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory: 17 sq mi (44 sq km)
- diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- dietetically — In a dietetical manner.
- diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- dilaceration — the act of dilacerating.
- dinner dance — a formal social gathering that includes a dinner followed by dancing.
- dinner-dance — a formal social gathering that includes a dinner followed by dancing.
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- direct labor — labor performed, as by workers on a production line, and considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- directorates — Plural form of directorate.
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- disaffection — the absence or alienation of affection or goodwill; estrangement; disloyalty: Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disassociate — to dissociate.
- discalceated — Deprived of shoes or sandals.
- discandering — discandying, melting from a state of being candied
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.