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12-letter words containing c, a, n, r, d

  • demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
  • demiromantic — Lb neologism Romantically attracted to people only after forming deep emotional bonds.
  • denuclearize — to deprive (a country, state, etc) of nuclear weapons
  • denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
  • depreciating — Present participle of depreciate.
  • depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
  • deracinating — Present participle of deracinate Pulling up by the roots.
  • deracination — to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate.
  • desecrations — Plural form of desecration.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • dictionarist — (rare) a person who creates dictionaries.
  • dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
  • dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
  • dilaceration — the act of dilacerating.
  • dinaric alps — a mountain range in W Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia: connected with the main Alpine system by the Julian Alps. Highest peak: Troglav, 1913 m (6277 ft)
  • dining chair — high-backed chair used at dinner table
  • dinner dance — a formal social gathering that includes a dinner followed by dancing.
  • dinner-dance — a formal social gathering that includes a dinner followed by dancing.
  • disaccordant — not agreeing
  • disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
  • discandering — discandying, melting from a state of being candied
  • discarnation — without a physical body; incorporeal.
  • disciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
  • discordantly — disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh.
  • discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
  • discrepances — Plural form of discrepance.
  • discretional — discretionary.
  • discriminant — a relatively simple expression that determines some of the properties, as the nature of the roots, of a given equation or function.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • disincarnate — (Of a being) without a body.
  • disintricate — (transitive) To disentangle.
  • disordinance — (obsolete) disarrangement; disturbance.
  • disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
  • distractions — Plural form of distraction.
  • district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
  • disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
  • divaricating — Present participle of divaricate.
  • divarication — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
  • doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
  • doctrinarian — A doctrinaire.
  • doctrination — (nonstandard) indoctrination.
  • dodecahedron — a solid figure having 12 faces.
  • dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
  • dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
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