12-letter words containing d, e, t, r, s
- disconnector — (electrical engineering) A switching device used to open an electric circuit when there is no current through it. They are used to isolate a part of an electrical system to allow the maintenance staff a safe access to it.
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- discourteous — not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- discrediting — Present participle of discredit.
- discreetness — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discreteness — apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.
- discretional — discretionary.
- discretively — in a discretive manner
- discriminate — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- disenchanter — One who disenchants.
- disentranced — to bring out of an entranced condition; disenchant.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disheartened — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disincarnate — (Of a being) without a body.
- disinherited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinherit.
- disintegrant — A disintegrant is an agent, used in the preparation of tablets, which causes them to disintegrate and release their medicinal substances on contact with moisture.
- disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disinterment — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- disinterring — Present participle of disinter.
- disintricate — (transitive) To disentangle.
- disjunctures — Plural form of disjuncture.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- disoperation — a relationship between two organisms in a community that is harmful to both
- disorientate — to disorient.
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- dispersement — Misspelling of disbursement.
- dispiritedly — discouraged; dejected; disheartened; gloomy.
- dispiritment — the state of being dispirited
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- dispropriate — to deprive of ownership
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- disrespected — lack of respect; discourtesy; rudeness.
- disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissenterish — having a part of the character or quality of a dissenter
- dissenterism — the beliefs and practices of dissenters
- dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
- dissertative — of or relating to dissertation
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- dissymmetric — Asymmetric.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- distemperoid — resembling distemper.
- distilleries — Plural form of distillery.
- distractable — Alternative form of distractible.