12-letter words containing d, a, c, t
- denunciation — Denunciation of someone or something is severe public criticism of them.
- denunciative — Denunciatory.
- 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
- depreciative — Tending to depreciate (in value etc.).
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
- deracinating — Present participle of deracinate Pulling up by the roots.
- deracination — to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate.
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- desecrations — Plural form of desecration.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- detachedness — the quality of being detached or separated
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- 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
- detoxicating — Present participle of detoxicate.
- detoxication — Biochemistry. the metabolic process by which toxins are changed into less toxic or more readily excretable substances.
- dextrocardia — the abnormal location of the heart in the right side of the chest
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- diagrammatic — Something that is in diagrammatic form is arranged or drawn as a diagram.
- dialectician — an expert in dialectic; logician
- dialecticism — the influence of dialect
- dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
- dialytically — Done in a dialytic manner or way.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- diatonically — In a diatonic manner.
- 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
- dichotically — in a dichotic manner
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- 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
- didactically — In a didactic manner.
- didacticisms — Plural form of didacticism.
- dietetically — In a dietetical manner.
- difunctional — Bifunctional.
- diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.
- dijudication — the act or process of dijudicating
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- dilaceration — the act of dilacerating.
- dilucidation — elucidation
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- diplomatical — Obsolete form of diplomatic.
- direct labor — labor performed, as by workers on a production line, and considered in computing costs per unit of production.