12-letter words containing c, s, l
- disciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- disciplining — Present participle of discipline.
- disclamation — the act of disclaiming; renunciation; disavowal.
- disco lights — coloured lights that flash on and off in time to the music at a disco etc
- discolorated — Simple past tense and past participle of discolorate.
- disconsolate — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discordantly — disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- 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.
- discretional — discretionary.
- discretively — in a discretive manner
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- discursively — In a discursive manner.
- discussional — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disinclining — Present participle of disincline.
- dislocatedly — in a dislocated manner
- dislocations — Plural form of dislocation.
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- display case — glass box, cabinet
- display hack — (graphics) A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
- display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
- displeasance — the state or cause of being displeased
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- dissociality — the fact or characteristic of being dissocial
- dissocialize — to render dissocial
- distanceless — without distance
- distractable — Alternative form of distractible.
- distractedly — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
- distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
- dodecastylos — a dodecastyle building, as a classical temple.
- domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domestically — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- donatistical — relating to a Donatist or Donatism
- double scull — a racing shell in which two scullers sit one behind the other and pull two oars each
- double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- dress circle — a circular or curving division of seats in a theater, opera house, etc., usually the first gallery, originally set apart for spectators in evening dress.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dutch settle — a settle having a back so hinged that it can be lowered onto the arms to form a table.
- dynastically — In a dynastic (or dynastical) way.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.