12-letter words containing r, e, t, o, d
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- discolorated — Simple past tense and past participle of discolorate.
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discomforted — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- discomforter — One who causes discomfort.
- disconcerted — disturbed, as in one's composure or self-possession; perturbed; ruffled: She was disconcerted by the sudden attack on her integrity.
- disconnector — (electrical engineering) A switching device used to open an electric circuit when there is no current through it. They are used to isolate a part of an electrical system to allow the maintenance staff a safe access to it.
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- discourteous — not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- discretional — discretionary.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- disoperation — a relationship between two organisms in a community that is harmful to both
- disorientate — to disorient.
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- dispropriate — to deprive of ownership
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
- distemperoid — resembling distemper.
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- divertimento — an instrumental composition in several movements, light and diverting in character, similar to a serenade.
- do credit to — present or represent honourably
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dog's letter — the letter r, especially when representing a trill.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- dorothea dix — Dorothea Lynde [lind] /lɪnd/ (Show IPA), (Dorothy) 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsolateral — of, relating to, or affecting the back and the side.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
- down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- draft dodger — a person who evades or attempts to evade compulsory military service.
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).