12-letter words containing d, a, n, t, o
- countenanced — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
- counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
- counter-raid — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- counteracted — Simple past tense and past participle of counteract.
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- countertrade — international trade in which payment is made in goods rather than currency
- country road — a road in the country
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- dactinomycin — a cytotoxic polypeptide, C 62 H 86 N 12 O 16 , isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces parvullus, used in the treatment of certain cancers.
- dalton's law — the principle that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases in a fixed volume is equal to the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- data logging — (data) (data acquisition) Storing a series of measurements over time, usually from a sensor that converts a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, light, resistance, current, power, speed, vibration into a voltage that is then converted by a digital to analog converter (DAC) into a binary number. Data logging hardware may have several DACs for multiple simultaneous measurements. The hardware usually connects to a parallel port, serial port or USB port on a PC.
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- deactivation — The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb.
- dead account — an account that is no longer being used and on which no transactions have taken place for a considerable length of time
- deallocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- death notice — a public announcement, e.g. in a newspaper, that someone has died
- debilitation — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
- decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
- decarbonated — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonate.
- deceleration — to decrease the velocity of: He decelerates the bobsled when he nears a curve.
- decentration — The removal of something from a centre.
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- declamations — Plural form of declamation.
- declarations — Plural form of declaration.
- declinations — Plural form of declination.
- decoloration — appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds.
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- decongestant — A decongestant is a medicine which helps someone who has a cold to breathe more easily.
- deconsecrate — to transfer (a church) to secular use
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- deexcitation — to cause (an atom) to fall from an excited energy level to a lower energy level.
- definitional — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
- deflectional — of or relating to deflection
- deflocculant — a chemical added to slip to increase fluidity.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- deglaciation — the process of removing glaciation