12-letter words containing d, e, u, t, s
- dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desmond tutu — a university degree graded 2:2 (second class lower bracket)
- despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- desquamative — tending to cause desquamation; characterized by desquamation
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- dessert menu — In a restaurant or café, the dessert menu is a list of the desserts that are available.
- destructible — capable of being or liable to be destroyed
- destructured — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- detumescence — the subsidence of a swelling, esp the return of a swollen organ, such as the penis, to the flaccid state
- deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
- deuterostome — any member of the major group of animals defined by the fact that during early embryonic development the first opening to form becomes the anus of the animal. The opposite is protostome
- devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
- dextrousness — Alternative form of dexterousness.
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- difficulties — the fact or condition of being difficult.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discontinued — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discontinues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discontinue.
- discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- discourteous — not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disguisement — Disguise (deceptive appearance).
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- disjunctures — Plural form of disjuncture.
- dispiteously — in a manner that lacks pity
- disquisitive — Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; inquisitive.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
- dissimulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dissimulate.
- dissimulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissimulate.
- distastefull — Archaic form of distasteful.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distributees — Plural form of distributee.
- distributers — a person or thing that distributes.
- distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.