12-letter words containing a, s, u, i
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- death duties — Death duties were a tax which had to be paid on the money and property of someone who had died. This tax is now called inheritance tax.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of desexualize.
- desexualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desexualize.
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- desquamative — tending to cause desquamation; characterized by desquamation
- desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
- diamond dust — pulverized diamonds, used as an abrasive.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- diddly-squat — anything
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- 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.
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disanalogous — not analogous
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- discussional — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- disdainfully — full of or showing disdain; scornful.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- dispauperize — to free (a person) from the state of being a pauper
- disputations — Plural form of disputation.
- disputatious — fond of or given to disputation; argumentative; contentious: disputatious litigants.
- disqualified — Simple past tense and past participle of disqualify.
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disqualifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disqualify.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- dissimulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dissimulate.
- dissimulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissimulate.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- dissuasively — In a dissuasive manner.
- distastefull — Archaic form of distasteful.