12-letter words containing d, a, t, u, r, i
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- diuretically — In a diuretic way.
- diverticular — Of or relating to diverticula.
- docudramatic — Of or relating to docudrama.
- door curtain — a curtain that fills a doorway
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- draw curtain — a curtain, opening at the middle, that can be drawn to the sides of a stage.
- drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
- durante vita — during life.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
- foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
- gaillard cut — an artificial cutting in the Panama Canal Zone, NW of the city of Panama: excavated for the Panama Canal. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- gutturalized — pronounced with guttural coarticulation.
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- in-and-outer — a person who is by turns in and out of a particular situation, condition, venture, investment, etc.
- industrially — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- ingurgitated — Simple past tense and past participle of ingurgitate.
- intermundane — existing in the space between worlds or heavenly bodies: intermundane space.
- intramundane — existing or occurring within the material world.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.