12-letter words containing d, g
- degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.
- degenderized — Simple past tense and past participle of degenderize.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- degenerating — to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate: The morale of the soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- degerminated — degerm (def 2).
- deglaciation — the process of removing glaciation
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- deglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of deglutinate.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- dehumanizing — denying or depriving of dignity
- delegitimate — (transitive) to remove the legitimacy from.
- delegitimise — Alternative spelling of delegitimize.
- delegitimize — to make invalid, illegal, or unacceptable
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- delimitating — Present participle of delimitate.
- deliquescing — Present participle of deliquesce.
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- delta-winged — (of an aircraft) having a triangular sweptback wing
- deltiologist — the hobby of collecting post cards.
- demagnetized — Simple past tense and past participle of demagnetize.
- demagnetizer — Any device (often a furnace) that is used to remove magnetization.
- demagnetizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demagnetize.
- demand paged — demand paging
- demobilizing — Present participle of demobilize.
- demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
- 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.
- demonologist — An expert in the study of demonology.
- 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.
- demotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demystifying — Present participle of demystify.
- demythifying — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- dengue-fever — an infectious, eruptive fever of warm climates, usually epidemic, characterized especially by severe pains in the joints and muscles.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- denitrifying — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
- denominating — Present participle of denominate.