12-letter words containing d, i, s, n, t
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- 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.
- discriminant — a relatively simple expression that determines some of the properties, as the nature of the roots, of a given equation or function.
- 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.
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- 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.
- disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
- disentangled — Simple past tense and past participle of disentangle.
- disentranced — to bring out of an entranced condition; disenchant.
- disentwining — Present participle of disentwine.
- disesteeming — Present participle of disesteem.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disgradation — a deposition of rank or status
- disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disgruntling — Present participle of disgruntle.
- disguisement — Disguise (deceptive appearance).
- disgustingly — causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- dish antenna — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
- 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.
- disincarnate — (Of a being) without a body.
- disincentive — something that discourages or deters; deterrent: High interest rates and government regulations are disincentives to investment.
- disinfectant — any chemical agent used chiefly on inanimate objects to destroy or inhibit the growth of harmful organisms.
- disinfecting — Present participle of disinfect.
- disinfection — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disinfestant — a product used to remove infestation
- disinflation — a period or process of slowing the rate of inflation.
- disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
- disinherited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinherit.
- disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
- disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
- 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.
- disinvesting — Present participle of disinvest.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disjointedly — In a disjointed manner.
- disjointness — (mathematics) The condition of being disjoint.
- disjunctions — Plural form of disjunction.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- disjunctures — Plural form of disjuncture.
- dislocations — Plural form of dislocation.