12-letter words containing d, i, s, o, r
- dead soldier — an empty beer or spirit bottle
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- debonairness — The state or quality of being debonair.
- declarations — Plural form of declaration.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demo version — 1. An early, barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration purposes as long as the operator uses *exactly* the right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions. 2. A special version of a finished program (frequently with some features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to the user for enticement purposes. See crippleware.
- democratised — Simple past tense and past participle of democratise.
- democratiser — one who democratises
- democratizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of democratize.
- 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.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.
- denominators — Plural form of denominator.
- densitometer — an instrument for measuring the optical density of a material by directing a beam of light onto the specimen and measuring its transmission or reflection
- densitometry — Photography. an instrument for measuring the density of negatives.
- dentirostral — (of birds) having a toothed beak
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- deportations — Plural form of deportation.
- depositaries — Plural form of depositary.
- depositories — Plural form of depository.
- depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- derelictions — Plural form of dereliction.
- derepression — the act of derepressing a gene
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- descriptions — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
- desecrations — Plural form of desecration.
- desideration — to wish or long for.
- desirousness — The state of being desirous.
- destined for — headed for; bound for
- deteriorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deteriorate.
- detritivores — Plural form of detritivore.
- diastereomer — either of a pair of stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other.
- diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- dictionaries — Plural form of dictionary.
- dictionarist — (rare) a person who creates dictionaries.
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- dilatoriness — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.