12-letter words containing i, s, r
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disregarding — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- disrespected — lack of respect; discourtesy; rudeness.
- disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissenterish — having a part of the character or quality of a dissenter
- dissenterism — the beliefs and practices of dissenters
- dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
- dissertative — of or relating to dissertation
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- dissimilarly — In a dissimilar way; differently.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- disspiriting — Present participle of disspirit alternative spelling of dispiriting.
- dissymmetric — Asymmetric.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- distemperoid — resembling distemper.
- distilleries — Plural form of distillery.
- distractable — Alternative form of distractible.
- distractedly — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
- distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distractions — Plural form of distraction.
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
- distributees — Plural form of distributee.
- distributers — a person or thing that distributes.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributism — a socioeconomic theory and system advocating widespread ownership of private property and the means of production: based on late 19th-century Catholic teachings on economic and social justice.
- distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- distributors — Plural form of distributor.
- district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
- district six — an area of Cape Town that was inhabited by a racially mixed community until it was forcibly removed in 1966
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- distrustless — without suspicion or distrust
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- 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.
- divestitures — Plural form of divestiture.