12-letter words containing g, e, l, i
- demoralizing — If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- dentilingual — pronounced or articulated with the tongue touching the upper teeth
- deontologist — ethics, especially that branch dealing with duty, moral obligation, and right action.
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- deregulating — Present participle of deregulate.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- dermaplaning — a cosmetic treatment, often used to treat acne scars, in which surface irregularities are surgically scraped to give the skin a smoother appearance
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- desalinating — Present participle of desalinate.
- desalinizing — Present participle of desalinize.
- descendingly — In a descending manner.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- devil's dung — asafetida.
- devil's grip — pleurodynia (def 2).
- devitalizing — Present participle of devitalize.
- diagonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of diagonalize.
- diagrammable — able to be diagrammed or representable by a diagram
- dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- digressively — In a digressive fashion.
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- dineolignane — (organic chemistry) Any derivative of a lignane having four propylbenzene residues.
- dining table — a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
- diplogenesis — the double production or formation of something that is normally single, such as a doubled part in a fetus or a double fetus
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- discerningly — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disenrolling — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disentangled — Simple past tense and past participle of disentangle.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disguiseless — the quality of being without disguise
- dishevelling — Present participle of dishevel.
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- disprivilege — to deprive of privilege
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.