12-letter words containing a, n, s, e, r
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- 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.
- disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- disheartened — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disincarnate — (Of a being) without a body.
- disintegrant — A disintegrant is an agent, used in the preparation of tablets, which causes them to disintegrate and release their medicinal substances on contact with moisture.
- disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disintricate — (transitive) To disentangle.
- disoperation — a relationship between two organisms in a community that is harmful to both
- disordinance — (obsolete) disarrangement; disturbance.
- disorganised — Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
- disorganized — functioning without adequate order, systemization, or planning; uncoordinated: a woefully disorganized enterprise.
- disorientate — to disorient.
- dispensaries — Plural form of dispensary.
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- disregarding — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- earsplitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- east african — of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants