12-letter words containing d, r, s, t
- desiderative — feeling or expressing desire
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- dessert bowl — A dessert bowl is a bowl in which a dessert is served.
- dessert fork — a fork used for eating certain desserts, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner fork.
- dessert menu — In a restaurant or café, the dessert menu is a list of the desserts that are available.
- dessert wine — A dessert wine is a sweet wine, usually a white wine, that is served with dessert.
- dessertspoon — A dessertspoon is a spoon which is midway between the size of a teaspoon and a tablespoon. You use it to eat desserts.
- destabilizer — a person who or a thing that destabilizes
- destined for — headed for; bound for
- destructible — capable of being or liable to be destroyed
- destructured — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- deteriorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deteriorate.
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- determinisms — Plural form of determinism.
- detritivores — Plural form of detritivore.
- deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
- deuterostome — any member of the major group of animals defined by the fact that during early embryonic development the first opening to form becomes the anus of the animal. The opposite is protostome
- dexterities' — skill or adroitness in using the hands or body; agility.
- dextrousness — Alternative form of dexterousness.
- 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.
- diesel train — a train hauled by a diesel locomotive or powered by a diesel engine
- digitigrades — Plural form of digitigrade.
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- dilatoriness — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- directed set — (theory) A set X is directed under some relation, <= (less than or equal), if it is non-empty and if for any two elements x and y there exists an element z such that x <= z and y <= z. I.e. all pairs have an upper bound.
- directedness — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- directorates — Plural form of directorate.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- dirty tricks — underhand activities and machinations in political or governmental affairs, usually intended to discredit an opponent
- disaccordant — not agreeing
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disaggregate — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- 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
- discarnation — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- discerptible — capable of being torn apart; divisible.
- discolorated — Simple past tense and past participle of discolorate.