12-letter words containing a, d, p, c
- dallapiccola — Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1904–75, Italian composer of twelve-tone music. His works include the opera Il Prigioniero (1944–48) and the ballet Marsia (1948)
- dancing step — balanced step.
- data capture — any process for converting information into a form that can be handled by a computer
- decapacitate — To reduce something's or someone's capability to do something.
- decapitalise — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- decapitalize — to make difficult to have or to take away stock or wealth from
- decapitating — Present participle of decapitate.
- decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
- decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- deck passage — overnight accommodation on a vessel other than in a regular sleeping space.
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- decrepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of decrepitate.
- decrepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrepitate.
- deduplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of deduplicate.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- dependancies — Plural form of dependancy.
- depreciating — Present participle of depreciate.
- depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
- depreciative — Tending to depreciate (in value etc.).
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- 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.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- dicarpellary — having two carpels
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- dinaric alps — a mountain range in W Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia: connected with the main Alpine system by the Julian Alps. Highest peak: Troglav, 1913 m (6277 ft)
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- diplocardiac — having the right and left sides of the heart somewhat or completely divided, as in birds and mammals.
- diplomatical — Obsolete form of diplomatic.
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- dipsomaniacs — Plural form of dipsomaniac.
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
- disciplinant — a person belonging to a former order of flagellants in Spain
- disciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- discrepances — Plural form of discrepance.
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.