12-letter words containing a, c, s, e, o
- disaffection — the absence or alienation of affection or goodwill; estrangement; disloyalty: Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disassociate — to dissociate.
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discolorated — Simple past tense and past participle of discolorate.
- discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
- disconsolate — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- discretional — discretionary.
- dislocatedly — in a dislocated manner
- disordinance — (obsolete) disarrangement; disturbance.
- dissocialize — to render dissocial
- dissociative — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dodecastylos — a dodecastyle building, as a classical temple.
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- domestic cat — feline kept as a pet
- domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domestically — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- domesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domesticates — Plural form of domesticate.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- door scraper — a small horizontal bar fixed to the ground near a door where visitors can scrape mud from their shoes before entering
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- droseraceous — of or relating to the genus of plants Drosera
- duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
- earth closet — a type of lavatory in which earth is used to cover excreta
- east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
- echolocators — Plural form of echolocator.
- ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
- ectoparasite — an external parasite (opposed to endoparasite).
- edifications — Plural form of edification.
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- egoistically — In an egoistic manner.
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- ejector seat — An ejector seat is a special seat which can throw the pilot out of a fast military aircraft in an emergency.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- electroclash — a type of electronic music, originating in the first decade of the 21st century, that combines modern techno with synthesizer music characteristic of the 1980s
- elicitations — Plural form of elicitation.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.