12-letter words containing a, d, r, e
- deracialized — Simple past tense and past participle of deracialize.
- 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.
- deratization — extermination of rats, especially aboard a merchant vessel.
- 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.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derivational — Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.
- derivatively — derived.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- 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.
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- dermographia — dermatographia.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- derwentwater — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Area: about 8 sq km (3 sq miles)
- 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
- detartration — The process of detartrating, i.e. removing tartrates, especially from fruit juices and wines, in order to reduce tartness or sourness.
- detector van — a vehicle fitted with equipment that detects whether or not a house has a television. This is used to catch people who have not paid for a television licence and so are illegally using a television
- deteriorated — Become progressively worse.
- deteriorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deteriorate.
- determinable — able to be decided, fixed, or found out
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinated — having defined limits; definite.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- determinator — a person who or a thing that determines
- detribalized — Simple past tense and past participle of detribalize.
- deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- 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.