12-letter words containing a, u, d
- daughtercard — daughterboard
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- david turner — (person) Professor David A Turner. One of the pioneers of functional languages. He designed several languages, including, SASL (1976), KRC (1981), and Miranda, many of which were implemented using combinators and the S-K reduction machine which he defined. He coined the name "ZF expression" for the list comprehension. He worked at UKC and set up a company, Research Software Limited to market Miranda.
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- dead account — an account that is no longer being used and on which no transactions have taken place for a considerable length of time
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- dearticulate — to disjoint, dislocate, or separate (something)
- 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.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
- decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
- decarburized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarburize.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- deduplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of deduplicate.
- deflocculant — a chemical added to slip to increase fluidity.
- deflocculate — to disperse, forming a colloid or suspension
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- deglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of deglutinate.
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- dehumanizing — denying or depriving of dignity
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
- demodulation — the act or process by which an output wave or signal is obtained having the characteristics of the original modulating wave or signal; the reverse of modulation
- demutualized — Simple past tense and past participle of demutualize.
- denaturalize — to deprive of nationality
- denaturation — to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
- dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
- denticulated — Denticulate.
- dentilingual — pronounced or articulated with the tongue touching the upper teeth
- denuclearize — to deprive (a country, state, etc) of nuclear weapons
- denunciation — Denunciation of someone or something is severe public criticism of them.
- denunciative — Denunciatory.
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- depopulation — to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
- depopulative — That depopulates.
- deputization — the act of making someone a deputy
- deregulating — Present participle of deregulate.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- 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.