12-letter words containing o, r, i
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- darning wool — wool used for darning
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- dead soldier — an empty beer or spirit bottle
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- debonairness — The state or quality of being debonair.
- debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
- decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.
- decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
- decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- deceleration — to decrease the velocity of: He decelerates the bobsled when he nears a curve.
- decentration — The removal of something from a centre.
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
- declarations — Plural form of declaration.
- declinometer — an instrument for measuring magnetic declination
- decoloration — appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds.
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- decorticated — Having had the outer covering removed.
- decorticator — A machine that peels off the fibrous husk, bark or outer layer of some vegetable product; used in the manufacture of animal feed etc.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- dedicatorial — relating to or acting as a dedication
- 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.
- deformalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deformalize.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- deli counter — a display case in a delicatessen, or one in a supermarket that sells delicatessen
- deliberation — Deliberation is the long and careful consideration of a subject.
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- della robbia — ˈLu‧ca (ˈlukɑ ) ; lo̅oˈkä) 1400?-82; Florentine sculptor & worker in enameled terra cotta: member of a family of artists
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demiromantic — Lb neologism Romantically attracted to people only after forming deep emotional bonds.
- demo version — 1. An early, barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration purposes as long as the operator uses *exactly* the right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions. 2. A special version of a finished program (frequently with some features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to the user for enticement purposes. See crippleware.
- democratical — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- democratised — Simple past tense and past participle of democratise.
- democratiser — one who democratises
- democratized — Simple past tense and past participle of democratize.
- democratizer — a person or thing that democratizes
- democratizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of democratize.