12-letter words containing d, e, g, l
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
- diplogenesis — the double production or formation of something that is normally single, such as a doubled part in a fetus or a double fetus
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- discerningly — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disenrolling — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disentangled — Simple past tense and past participle of disentangle.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disguiseless — the quality of being without disguise
- dishevelling — Present participle of dishevel.
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- disprivilege — to deprive of privilege
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- dog's letter — the letter r, especially when representing a trill.
- doggy paddle — a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies on his or her front, paddles his or her hands in imitation of a swimming dog, and beats his or her legs up and down
- dogleg fence — snake fence.
- dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
- doppleganger — Misspelling of doppelganger.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
- double eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
- double fugue — a fugue with two subjects developed simultaneously.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- double-edged — having two cutting edges, as a razor blade.
- double-glaze — If someone double-glazes a house or its windows, they fit windows that have two layers of glass which keeps the inside of the house warmer and quieter.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- draggle-tail — slut; slattern.
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
- dysregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.
- dysteleology — Philosophy. a doctrine denying the existence of a final cause or purpose.
- edge molding — a convexly rounded molding having a fillet or concavity at or near its centerline.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- endogenously — In an endogenous manner.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers