12-letter words containing d, a, s
- desalinizing — Present participle of desalinize.
- 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.
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- descamisados — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- descensional — relating to descension
- desecrations — Plural form of desecration.
- desegregated — Simple past tense and past participle of desegregate.
- desegregates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desegregate.
- desexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of desexualize.
- desexualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desexualize.
- desiderating — Present participle of desiderate.
- desideration — to wish or long for.
- desiderative — feeling or expressing desire
- designations — Plural form of designation.
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- desocialized — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- desolateness — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage
- 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
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- desquamative — tending to cause desquamation; characterized by desquamation
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- destabilised — Simple past tense and past participle of destabilise.
- destabilises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destabilise.
- destabilized — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- destabilizer — a person who or a thing that destabilizes
- destabilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destabilize.
- destigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- destinations — The place to which someone or something is going or being sent.
- desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- detachedness — the quality of being detached or separated
- detailedness — the quality of being detailed
- deteriorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deteriorate.
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- detestations — Plural form of detestation.
- devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
- devastations — Plural form of devastation.
- deviationism — ideological deviation (esp from orthodox Communism)
- deviationist — One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- devolatilise — to cause (a vapor) to liquefy.
- devon island — an island in the Nunavut Territory, N Canada. 20,900 sq. mi. (54,100 sq. km).
- dewar vessel — a container with an evacuated space between two walls that are highly reflective, capable of maintaining its contents at a near-constant temperature over relatively long periods of time; thermos.
- dialecticism — the influence of dialect