12-letter words containing d, o, i, t
- cyprinodonts — Plural form of cyprinodont.
- cysticercoid — the larva of any of certain tapeworms, which resembles a cysticercus but has a smaller bladder
- dactinomycin — a cytotoxic polypeptide, C 62 H 86 N 12 O 16 , isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces parvullus, used in the treatment of certain cancers.
- dactyliology — the study of finger-rings
- dactylozooid — (zoology) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora with an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth.
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- data logging — (data) (data acquisition) Storing a series of measurements over time, usually from a sensor that converts a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, light, resistance, current, power, speed, vibration into a voltage that is then converted by a digital to analog converter (DAC) into a binary number. Data logging hardware may have several DACs for multiple simultaneous measurements. The hardware usually connects to a parallel port, serial port or USB port on a PC.
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- de-evolution — any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
- deactivation — The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb.
- deallocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- death notice — a public announcement, e.g. in a newspaper, that someone has died
- debilitation — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
- debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
- decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
- decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- deceleration — to decrease the velocity of: He decelerates the bobsled when he nears a curve.
- decentration — The removal of something from a centre.
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- declamations — Plural form of declamation.
- declarations — Plural form of declaration.
- declinations — Plural form of declination.
- declinometer — an instrument for measuring magnetic declination
- decoloration — appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds.
- deconflicted — Simple past tense and past participle of deconflict.
- decongesting — Present participle of decongest.
- decongestion — the act of decongesting
- decongestive — having the ability to ease crowding or clogging in busy locations
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- decorticated — Having had the outer covering removed.
- decorticator — A machine that peels off the fibrous husk, bark or outer layer of some vegetable product; used in the manufacture of animal feed etc.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- dedicatorial — relating to or acting as a dedication
- dedolomitize — to transform (dolomite or dolomitic limestone) by separating the dolomite into calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate.
- deexcitation — to cause (an atom) to fall from an excited energy level to a lower energy level.
- defectionist — a person who is in favour of lapsing, backsliding, or defection
- definitional — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
- deflectional — of or relating to deflection
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating