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12-letter words containing d, e, l, h

  • dealcoholize — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
  • death rattle — If you say that one thing is the death rattle of another, you mean that the first thing is a sign that very soon the second thing will come to an end.
  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • death valley — a desert valley in E California and W Nevada: the lowest, hottest, and driest area of the US. Lowest point: 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. Area: about 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
  • dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
  • decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
  • delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
  • dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
  • desulphurize — to free or become free from sulphur
  • devilishness — The state or quality of being devilish.
  • die horribly — (jargon)   The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
  • diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
  • diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
  • diethylamide — (organic compound) The derivative of a compound formed by adding an amide group with two ethyl substituents, N(C2H5)2.
  • diethylamine — (organic compound) The secondary amine (CH3CH2)2NH.
  • dilettantish — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
  • diminishable — That may be diminished.
  • dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
  • discipleship — (initial capital letter) a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • disembellish — (transitive) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
  • disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • dishevelling — Present participle of dishevel.
  • dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
  • dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
  • ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
  • ditheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
  • do the lolly — to lose one's temper
  • dodecahedral — Having twelve plane surfaces.
  • doll's house — a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
  • double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
  • double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
  • double helix — the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.
  • double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
  • double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
  • double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
  • double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
  • doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
  • doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
  • douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
  • down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
  • dress shield — a fabric or plastic pad for attaching to the inside of the underarm of a woman's garment to protect the garment from being soiled by perspiration.
  • drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
  • duple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of disyllabic feet.
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