12-letter words containing a, d, r, e, s
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- denominators — Plural form of denominator.
- dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
- dentirostral — (of birds) having a toothed beak
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- deportations — Plural form of deportation.
- depositaries — Plural form of depositary.
- depravedness — The state of being depraved; depravity.
- depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- deradicalise — to free from radical ideas, goals, or elements: The more conservative politicians were trying to deradicalize the liberation movement.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- 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.
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desecrations — Plural form of desecration.
- desegregated — Simple past tense and past participle of desegregate.
- desegregates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desegregate.
- desiderating — Present participle of desiderate.
- desideration — to wish or long for.
- desiderative — feeling or expressing desire
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- destabilizer — a person who or a thing that destabilizes
- deteriorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deteriorate.
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- dewar vessel — a container with an evacuated space between two walls that are highly reflective, capable of maintaining its contents at a near-constant temperature over relatively long periods of time; thermos.
- diastereomer — either of a pair of stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other.
- dictionaries — Plural form of dictionary.
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- diesel train — a train hauled by a diesel locomotive or powered by a diesel engine
- digitigrades — Plural form of digitigrade.
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- dilatoriness — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
- directorates — Plural form of directorate.
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disaggregate — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disappearing — Present participle of disappear.