12-letter words containing a, d, g, l
- decelerating — Present participle of decelerate.
- decimalizing — Present participle of decimalize.
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- deescalating — Present participle of deescalate.
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- deglaciation — the process of removing glaciation
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- deglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of deglutinate.
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- delegitimate — (transitive) to remove the legitimacy from.
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delimitating — Present participle of delimitate.
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- delta-winged — (of an aircraft) having a triangular sweptback wing
- demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralizing — If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
- dentilingual — pronounced or articulated with the tongue touching the upper teeth
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- deregulating — Present participle of deregulate.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- dermaplaning — a cosmetic treatment, often used to treat acne scars, in which surface irregularities are surgically scraped to give the skin a smoother appearance
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- desalinating — Present participle of desalinate.
- desalinizing — Present participle of desalinize.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- devitalizing — Present participle of devitalize.
- diagonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of diagonalize.
- diagrammable — able to be diagrammed or representable by a diagram
- dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
- dialogically — in a dialogic manner
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- digitalizing — Present participle of digitalize.
- digladiation — fighting with swords or hand-to-hand
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- dilapidating — Present participle of dilapidate.
- dineolignane — (organic chemistry) Any derivative of a lignane having four propylbenzene residues.
- dining table — a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly