12-letter words containing d, s, n
- dissentients — Plural form of dissentient.
- dissepiments — Plural form of dissepiment.
- dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- dissipations — Plural form of dissipation.
- dissociating — Present participle of dissociate.
- dissociation — an act or instance of dissociating.
- dissolutions — Plural form of dissolution.
- disspiriting — Present participle of disspirit alternative spelling of dispiriting.
- distanceless — without distance
- distillation — the volatilization or evaporation and subsequent condensation of a liquid, as when water is boiled in a retort and the steam is condensed in a cool receiver.
- distinctions — Plural form of distinction.
- distinctness — distinguished as not being the same; not identical; separate (sometimes followed by from): His private and public lives are distinct.
- distractions — Plural form of distraction.
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
- district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- dividendless — without dividends
- divisiveness — forming or expressing division or distribution.
- dna sequence — the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
- do one's bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
- do one's nut — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
- dockominiums — Plural form of dockominium.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- dog's dinner — mess, failure
- dolorousness — The quality of being dolorous.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- don't ask me — You reply 'don't ask me' when you do not know the answer to a question, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that you have been asked.
- donatistical — relating to a Donatist or Donatism
- donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- doorknockers — Plural form of doorknocker.
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.