12-letter words containing s, a, c, d
- declinations — Plural form of declination.
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- decongestant — A decongestant is a medicine which helps someone who has a cold to breathe more easily.
- deconsecrate — to transfer (a church) to secular use
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- decrepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrepitate.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- deescalating — Present participle of deescalate.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- 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.
- 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.
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- 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
- dependancies — Plural form of dependancy.
- deradicalise — to free from radical ideas, goals, or elements: The more conservative politicians were trying to deradicalize the liberation movement.
- desacralized — Simple past tense and past participle of desacralize.
- desacralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desacralize.
- desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
- descamisados — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- descensional — relating to descension
- desecrations — Plural form of desecration.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- desocialized — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- detachedness — the quality of being detached or separated
- dialecticism — the influence of dialect
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- dictionaries — Plural form of dictionary.
- dictionarist — (rare) a person who creates dictionaries.
- didacticisms — Plural form of didacticism.
- diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.
- dinaric alps — a mountain range in W Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia: connected with the main Alpine system by the Julian Alps. Highest peak: Troglav, 1913 m (6277 ft)
- ding an sich — thing-in-itself.
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- dipsomaniacs — Plural form of dipsomaniac.
- directorates — Plural form of directorate.
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- disaccordant — not agreeing
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.