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12-letter words containing i, d, e, o, p

  • decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
  • dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
  • delapidation — Dated form of dilapidation.
  • demi-pension — an arrangement whereby a guest or resident pays, usually at a fixed rate, for room, breakfast, and one other daily meal offered in a hotel or boardinghouse; half board. Compare modified American plan.
  • demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
  • demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
  • deoppilation — the removal of obstructions
  • deoppilative — any drug which removes obstructions in the body
  • depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
  • depoliticise — Alternative spelling of depoliticize.
  • depoliticize — to deprive of a political nature; render apolitical
  • depolymerize — to break (a polymer) into constituent monomers or (of a polymer) to decompose in this way
  • depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
  • depopulation — to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
  • depopulative — That depopulates.
  • deportations — Plural form of deportation.
  • deposit loan — a loan to cover the cost of a deposit on something such as rented accommodation
  • deposit slip — a form that you fill in when you make a deposit into a bank account; it contains information such as the amount, whether it is a cash or cheque deposit, the account number and the date
  • depositaries — Plural form of depositary.
  • depositation — the act of depositing
  • depositional — of or relating to a deposition
  • depositories — Plural form of depository.
  • depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
  • depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
  • depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
  • deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
  • deputization — the act of making someone a deputy
  • derepression — the act of derepressing a gene
  • dermographia — dermatographia.
  • dermographic — dermatographia.
  • desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
  • descriptions — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
  • desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
  • despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
  • despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage
  • despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
  • deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
  • diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
  • dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
  • diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
  • dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
  • diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
  • diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
  • diphthongize — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
  • diplodocuses — Plural form of diplodocus.
  • diplogenesis — the double production or formation of something that is normally single, such as a doubled part in a fetus or a double fetus
  • dipropellant — bipropellant.
  • dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
  • dipsy-doodle — a quick dipping, sliding motion of the body, as made by ball carriers in football to evade tacklers.
  • dipyridamole — a yellow crystalline powder, C 24 H 40 N 8 O 4 , used prophylactically for angina pectoris and in combination with other drugs to reduce thrombus formation.
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