12-letter words containing r, e, s, i, d
- crossed line — interference on a telephone line that causes more than two callers to be connected
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- cyberfriends — Plural form of cyberfriend.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- cysticercoid — the larva of any of certain tapeworms, which resembles a cysticercus but has a smaller bladder
- d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
- daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
- dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- dead soldier — an empty beer or spirit bottle
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debonairness — The state or quality of being debonair.
- debt service — the amount set aside annually in a fund to pay the interest and the part of the principal due on a debt.
- decay series — a succession of elements initiated in the radioactive decay of a parent, as thorium or uranium, each of which decays into the next until a stable element, usually lead, is produced.
- decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
- decentralise — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- decentralist — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
- declarations — Plural form of declaration.
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- decrepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrepitate.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- deerstalking — The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- deliverables — items named in a contract, course, or project that must be delivered for its successful completion
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demilitarise — (British) alternative spelling of demilitarize.
- 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.
- democratised — Simple past tense and past participle of democratise.
- democratiser — one who democratises
- democratizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of democratize.
- 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.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- denigrations — Plural form of denigration.