12-letter words containing a, n, e, r
- decoloration — appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds.
- deconsecrate — to transfer (a church) to secular use
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- defenestrate — to throw (a person or a thing) out of a window
- 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.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- defragmented — Simple past tense and past participle of defragment.
- defragmenter — (computing) That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- degenerating — to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate: The morale of the soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- degerminated — degerm (def 2).
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- 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.
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberation — Deliberation is the long and careful consideration of a subject.
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- demagnetizer — Any device (often a furnace) that is used to remove magnetization.
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demineralize — to remove dissolved salts from (a liquid, esp water)
- demiromantic — Lb neologism Romantically attracted to people only after forming deep emotional bonds.
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- demonstrable — A demonstrable fact or quality can be shown to be true or to exist.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- demonstrated — Simple past tense and past participle of demonstrate.
- demonstrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demonstrate.
- demonstrator — Demonstrators are people who are marching or gathering somewhere to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralizing — If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
- denaturalize — to deprive of nationality
- denaturation — to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- denominators — Plural form of denominator.
- denormalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denormalize.
- dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
- dentirostral — (of birds) having a toothed beak
- denuclearize — to deprive (a country, state, etc) of nuclear weapons
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.