12-letter words containing c, i, d, e, r
- desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
- descriptions — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
- descriptives — Plural form of descriptive.
- desecrations — Plural form of desecration.
- destructible — capable of being or liable to be destroyed
- deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
- dextrocardia — the abnormal location of the heart in the right side of the chest
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- 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
- dicarpellary — having two carpels
- dictionaries — Plural form of dictionary.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- diego garcia — chief island of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory: 17 sq mi (44 sq km)
- differencing — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- dilaceration — the act of dilacerating.
- 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.
- diphtheritic — pertaining to diphtheria.
- direct debit — regular automatic bank payment
- direct input — a device, such as a keyboard, used to insert data directly into a computerized system
- direct labor — labor performed, as by workers on a production line, and considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- directed set — (theory) A set X is directed under some relation, <= (less than or equal), if it is non-empty and if for any two elements x and y there exists an element z such that x <= z and y <= z. I.e. all pairs have an upper bound.
- directedness — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- directorates — Plural form of directorate.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
- discandering — discandying, melting from a state of being candied
- discerningly — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- discerptible — capable of being torn apart; divisible.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discolorated — Simple past tense and past participle of discolorate.
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discomforted — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- discomforter — One who causes discomfort.
- discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
- disconcerted — disturbed, as in one's composure or self-possession; perturbed; ruffled: She was disconcerted by the sudden attack on her integrity.
- disconfirmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disconfirm.
- disconnector — (electrical engineering) A switching device used to open an electric circuit when there is no current through it. They are used to isolate a part of an electrical system to allow the maintenance staff a safe access to it.
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- discourteous — not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- discrediting — Present participle of discredit.
- discreetness — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discrepances — Plural form of discrepance.