12-letter words containing a, e, c, i, d, s
- delicatessen — A delicatessen is a shop that sells high quality foods such as cheeses and cold meats that have been imported from other countries.
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- democratised — Simple past tense and past participle of democratise.
- democratiser — one who democratises
- democratizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of democratize.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- dependancies — Plural form of dependancy.
- deradicalise — to free from radical ideas, goals, or elements: The more conservative politicians were trying to deradicalize the liberation movement.
- 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.
- descamisados — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- descensional — relating to descension
- desecrations — Plural form of desecration.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- desocialized — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- dialecticism — the influence of dialect
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- dictionaries — Plural form of dictionary.
- diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- directorates — Plural form of directorate.
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- disaffection — the absence or alienation of affection or goodwill; estrangement; disloyalty: Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disassociate — to dissociate.
- discalceated — Deprived of shoes or sandals.
- discandering — discandying, melting from a state of being candied
- 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.
- discrepances — Plural form of discrepance.
- discretional — discretionary.
- discriminate — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchanter — One who disenchants.
- disentranced — to bring out of an entranced condition; disenchant.
- disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disincarnate — (Of a being) without a body.
- disinfectant — any chemical agent used chiefly on inanimate objects to destroy or inhibit the growth of harmful organisms.