12-letter words containing a, n, t, e, c, d
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- detector van — a vehicle fitted with equipment that detects whether or not a house has a television. This is used to catch people who have not paid for a television licence and so are illegally using a television
- detoxicating — Present participle of detoxicate.
- detoxication — Biochemistry. the metabolic process by which toxins are changed into less toxic or more readily excretable substances.
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- dialectician — an expert in dialectic; logician
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- dictionaries — Plural form of dictionary.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- dilaceration — the act of dilacerating.
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- disaffection — the absence or alienation of affection or goodwill; estrangement; disloyalty: Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
- disconsolate — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- discretional — discretionary.
- discriminate — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchanter — One who disenchants.
- disentranced — to bring out of an entranced condition; disenchant.
- disincarnate — (Of a being) without a body.
- disinfectant — any chemical agent used chiefly on inanimate objects to destroy or inhibit the growth of harmful organisms.
- disintricate — (transitive) To disentangle.
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- distanceless — without distance
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- docutainment — infotainment (def 2).
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- dual citizen — a person who is a citizen or subject of two or more nations; one having dual citizenship.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- edifications — Plural form of edification.
- educatedness — the quality of being educated
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- encaptivated — Simple past tense and past participle of encaptivate.
- enculturated — Simple past tense and past participle of enculturate.
- endocarditic — Having or relating to endocarditis.
- endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.