12-letter words containing a, r, s, o, n
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- criminations — Plural form of crimination.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- cross-action — an action brought within the same lawsuit by one defendant against another defendant or against the plaintiff.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- debonairness — The state or quality of being debonair.
- declarations — Plural form of declaration.
- deconsecrate — to transfer (a church) to secular use
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- 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.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- denominators — Plural form of denominator.
- dentirostral — (of birds) having a toothed beak
- deportations — Plural form of deportation.
- depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desecrations — Plural form of desecration.
- desideration — to wish or long for.
- dictionaries — Plural form of dictionary.
- dictionarist — (rare) a person who creates dictionaries.
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- dilatoriness — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
- disaccordant — not agreeing
- disapproving — Expressing an unfavorable opinion.
- discarnation — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- discordantly — disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh.