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12-letter words containing a, l, d, r

  • dead soldier — an empty beer or spirit bottle
  • dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
  • deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
  • dearticulate — to disjoint, dislocate, or separate (something)
  • death rattle — If you say that one thing is the death rattle of another, you mean that the first thing is a sign that very soon the second thing will come to an end.
  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
  • decelerating — Present participle of decelerate.
  • deceleration — to decrease the velocity of: He decelerates the bobsled when he nears a curve.
  • decentralise — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
  • decentralist — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decentralize — To decentralize government or a large organization means to move some departments away from the main administrative area, or to give more power to local departments.
  • dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
  • decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • 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
  • declarations — Plural form of declaration.
  • decoloration — appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds.
  • decoratively — In a decorative manner.
  • decorrelated — Simple past tense and past participle of decorrelate.
  • decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
  • dedicatorial — relating to or acting as a dedication
  • deerstalkers — Plural form of deerstalker.
  • deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
  • defederalize — to shift the functions or powers of (an agency, service, etc.) from the jurisdiction of the federal government to that of state or local government: to defederalize construction loans.
  • defibrillate — to stop fibrillation of (the heart), as by the use of electric current
  • deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
  • deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
  • deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
  • deformalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deformalize.
  • degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
  • deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
  • degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
  • delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
  • delay screen — (in a cathode-ray tube) a sensitized screen with a phosphorescent coating that retains the image formed by the electron beam for an appreciable time.
  • delayed drop — a parachute descent with the opening of the parachute delayed, usually for a predetermined period
  • deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
  • deliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • deliberation — Deliberation is the long and careful consideration of a subject.
  • deliberative — A deliberative institution or procedure has the power or the right to make important decisions.
  • deliverables — items named in a contract, course, or project that must be delivered for its successful completion
  • deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
  • delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
  • della robbia — ˈLu‧ca (ˈlukɑ ) ; lo̅oˈkä) 1400?-82; Florentine sculptor & worker in enameled terra cotta: member of a family of artists
  • delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
  • demilitarise — (British) alternative spelling of demilitarize.
  • demilitarize — To demilitarize an area means to ensure that all military forces are removed from it.
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