12-letter words containing d, e, r, o, g
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- demographers — Plural form of demographer.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralizing — If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- deprogrammed — Simple past tense and past participle of deprogram.
- deprogrammer — a person or thing that removes the effects of brainwashing or indoctrination
- derecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of derecognize.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- dermographia — dermatographia.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- dextrogyrate — having dextrorotation
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- diego garcia — chief island of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory: 17 sq mi (44 sq km)
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- disenrolling — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- disorganised — Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
- disorganized — functioning without adequate order, systemization, or planning; uncoordinated: a woefully disorganized enterprise.
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- dog's dinner — mess, failure
- dog's letter — the letter r, especially when representing a trill.
- dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information