12-letter words containing a, e, r, u
- dearticulate — to disjoint, dislocate, or separate (something)
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
- decarburized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarburize.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- denaturalize — to deprive of nationality
- denaturation — to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
- dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
- denuclearize — to deprive (a country, state, etc) of nuclear weapons
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- 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.
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- 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.
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- 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.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- dispauperize — to free (a person) from the state of being a pauper
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- diuretically — In a diuretic way.
- diverticular — Of or relating to diverticula.
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.