12-letter words containing c, o, n, d, e, s
- dicotyledons — Plural form of dicotyledon.
- dictionaries — Plural form of dictionary.
- diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.
- disaffection — the absence or alienation of affection or goodwill; estrangement; disloyalty: Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
- discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
- 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.
- disconnected — disjointed; broken.
- 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.
- disconsolate — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discontented — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
- discontinued — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discontinues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discontinue.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discretional — discretionary.
- diseconomies — Plural form of diseconomy.
- disinfection — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
- disordinance — (obsolete) disarrangement; disturbance.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- doorknockers — Plural form of doorknocker.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
- echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
- edifications — Plural form of edification.
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- electrosonde — a sonde that measures the electric potential in the atmosphere
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- enchiridions — Plural form of enchiridion.
- endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- eradications — Plural form of eradication.
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- food science — the study of the nature of foods and the changes that occur in them naturally and as a result of handling and processing.
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- frondescence — the process or period of putting forth leaves, as a tree, plant, or the like.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.