12-letter words containing n, t, e
- desertedness — The state or quality of being deserted.
- desiderating — Present participle of desiderate.
- desideration — to wish or long for.
- designations — Plural form of designation.
- desmond tutu — a university degree graded 2:2 (second class lower bracket)
- desolateness — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage
- despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- dessert menu — In a restaurant or café, the dessert menu is a list of the desserts that are available.
- dessert wine — A dessert wine is a sweet wine, usually a white wine, that is served with dessert.
- dessertspoon — A dessertspoon is a spoon which is midway between the size of a teaspoon and a tablespoon. You use it to eat desserts.
- destinations — The place to which someone or something is going or being sent.
- destined for — headed for; bound for
- detachedness — the quality of being detached or separated
- detailedness — the quality of being detailed
- detartration — The process of detartrating, i.e. removing tartrates, especially from fruit juices and wines, in order to reduce tartness or sourness.
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- detectophone — a secret listening device, the predecessor of the modern 'bug'
- detector van — a vehicle fitted with equipment that detects whether or not a house has a television. This is used to catch people who have not paid for a television licence and so are illegally using a television
- determinable — able to be decided, fixed, or found out
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinated — having defined limits; definite.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- determinator — a person who or a thing that determines
- determinedly — resolute; staunch: the determined defenders of the Alamo.
- determinisms — Plural form of determinism.
- detestations — Plural form of detestation.
- dethronement — to remove from a throne; depose.
- detonability — the quality of being detonable
- detoxicating — Present participle of detoxicate.
- detoxication — Biochemistry. the metabolic process by which toxins are changed into less toxic or more readily excretable substances.
- detumescence — the subsidence of a swelling, esp the return of a swollen organ, such as the penis, to the flaccid state
- 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
- deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
- devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
- devastations — Plural form of devastation.
- developement — Obsolete spelling of development.
- developments — Plural form of development.
- deviationism — ideological deviation (esp from orthodox Communism)
- deviationist — One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.
- devitalizing — Present participle of devitalize.
- devitrifying — Present participle of devitrify.
- devotionally — In a devotional manner.
- dextrinizing — Present participle of dextrinize.
- dextrousness — Alternative form of dexterousness.
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes