12-letter words containing e, l, y, s
- crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
- crystallites — Plural form of crystallite.
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- crystallizer — A crystallizer is a vessel or stage in which a crystal grows from a liquid.
- crystallizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystallize.
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- cycle server — (jargon) A powerful computer that exists primarily for running large batch jobs. The term implies that interactive tasks such as editing are done on other machines on the network, such as workstations.
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- cyclogenesis — the formation and development of a low-pressure storm system
- cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
- cyclostomate — having a round mouth
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- cytoskeleton — a network of fibrous proteins that governs the shape and movement of a biological cell
- daniel shays — Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays' Rebellion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
- decasyllabic — having ten syllables: a decasyllabic verse.
- decasyllable — a word or line of verse consisting of ten syllables
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- delay screen — (in a cathode-ray tube) a sensitized screen with a phosphorescent coating that retains the image formed by the electron beam for an appreciable time.
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- deny oneself — to do without desired things
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- depressively — In a depressive manner.
- descendingly — In a descending manner.
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- 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.
- dicotyledons — Plural form of dicotyledon.
- dictyostelic — Of or possessing a dictyostele.
- diesel cycle — Machinery. a theoretical heat cycle for an engine in which combustion occurs at a constant pressure and cooling at a constant volume.
- digressively — In a digressive fashion.
- dillydallies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dillydally.
- dipsy-doodle — a quick dipping, sliding motion of the body, as made by ball carriers in football to evade tacklers.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- discerningly — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- discretively — in a discretive manner
- discursively — In a discursive manner.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disjointedly — In a disjointed manner.
- dislocatedly — in a dislocated manner
- disloyalness — The state or quality of being disloyal.
- disloyalties — Plural form of disloyalty.
- dismissively — indicating dismissal or rejection; having the purpose or effect of dismissing, as from one's presence or from consideration: a curt, dismissive gesture.