12-letter words containing d, y, o
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- deep ecology — a radical environmental movement and philosophy that regards humans as equal to other organisms within the global ecosystem.
- deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
- dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
- delayed drop — a parachute descent with the opening of the parachute delayed, usually for a predetermined period
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- demoniacally — In a demoniacal manner.
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- denotatively — having power to denote.
- densitometry — Photography. an instrument for measuring the density of negatives.
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- deny oneself — to do without desired things
- deoxygenated — to remove oxygen from (a substance, as blood or water).
- deoxygenized — Simple past tense and past participle of deoxygenize.
- deoxymannose — rhamnose.
- depolymerize — to break (a polymer) into constituent monomers or (of a polymer) to decompose in this way
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
- despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- detonability — the quality of being detonable
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
- devotionally — In a devotional manner.
- dextrogyrate — having dextrorotation
- diabolically — having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked: a diabolic plot.
- dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
- dialogically — in a dialogic manner
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diatonically — In a diatonic manner.
- dicarboxylic — containing two carboxyl groups in the molecule
- dichotically — in a dichotic manner
- dicotyledons — Plural form of dicotyledon.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- dictyostelic — Of or possessing a dictyostele.
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.