12-letter words containing d, i, e, t, h
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
- demythifying — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- diazomethane — a yellow odourless explosive gas, used as a methylating agent. Formula: CH2:N:N
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- dichotomised — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomise.
- dichotomized — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomize Having been divided into dichotomous parts.
- diet kitchen — a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.
- 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.
- diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
- diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
- diphtheritic — pertaining to diphtheria.
- diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- diphthongize — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- 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
- discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
- disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchanter — One who disenchants.
- disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- dish antenna — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- disheartened — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- dishonesties — Plural form of dishonesty.
- disinherited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinherit.
- disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- dissenterish — having a part of the character or quality of a dissenter
- ditch-digger — a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
- ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
- ditheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- dorothea dix — Dorothea Lynde [lind] /lɪnd/ (Show IPA), (Dorothy) 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- 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.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed