12-letter words containing n, e, d, a
- definability — The quality of being definable.
- definitional — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
- deflectional — of or relating to deflection
- deflocculant — a chemical added to slip to increase fluidity.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- defragmented — Simple past tense and past participle of defragment.
- defragmenter — (computing) That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- degenerating — to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate: The morale of the soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- degerminated — degerm (def 2).
- deglaciation — the process of removing glaciation
- deglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of deglutinate.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- dehumanizing — denying or depriving of dignity
- deindexation — the state of being no longer index-linked
- deionization — to remove ions from.
- delamination — separation into layers
- delapidation — Dated form of dilapidation.
- 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.
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberation — Deliberation is the long and careful consideration of a subject.
- delicateness — fine in texture, quality, construction, etc.: a delicate lace collar.
- delicatessen — A delicatessen is a shop that sells high quality foods such as cheeses and cold meats that have been imported from other countries.
- delimitating — Present participle of delimitate.
- delimitation — delimit.
- delineations — Plural form of delineation.
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- delta-winged — (of an aircraft) having a triangular sweptback wing
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- demagnetized — Simple past tense and past participle of demagnetize.
- demagnetizer — Any device (often a furnace) that is used to remove magnetization.
- demagnetizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demagnetize.
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- demand paged — demand paging
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demibastions — Plural form of demibastion.
- demimondaine — a woman of the demimonde
- demineralize — to remove dissolved salts from (a liquid, esp water)