12-letter words containing a, l, g
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- desalinating — Present participle of desalinate.
- desalinizing — Present participle of desalinize.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- devitalizing — Present participle of devitalize.
- diagonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of diagonalize.
- diagrammable — able to be diagrammed or representable by a diagram
- dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
- dialogically — in a dialogic manner
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- digitalizing — Present participle of digitalize.
- digladiation — fighting with swords or hand-to-hand
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- dilapidating — Present participle of dilapidate.
- dineolignane — (organic chemistry) Any derivative of a lignane having four propylbenzene residues.
- dining table — a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disanalogous — not analogous
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disentangled — Simple past tense and past participle of disentangle.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- doggy paddle — a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies on his or her front, paddles his or her hands in imitation of a swimming dog, and beats his or her legs up and down
- dogmatically — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
- doppleganger — Misspelling of doppelganger.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double-glaze — If someone double-glazes a house or its windows, they fit windows that have two layers of glass which keeps the inside of the house warmer and quieter.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- douglas hurd — a third-class university degree
- douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- draggle-tail — slut; slattern.
- dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).