12-letter words containing s, c, o, d, e
- discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discomforted — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- discomforter — One who causes discomfort.
- discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
- disconcerted — disturbed, as in one's composure or self-possession; perturbed; ruffled: She was disconcerted by the sudden attack on her integrity.
- disconfirmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disconfirm.
- disconnected — disjointed; broken.
- 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.
- disconsolate — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discontented — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
- discontinued — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discontinues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discontinue.
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- discourteous — not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- discretional — discretionary.
- diseconomies — Plural form of diseconomy.
- disinfection — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- dislocatedly — in a dislocated manner
- disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
- disordinance — (obsolete) disarrangement; disturbance.
- dissocialize — to render dissocial
- dissociative — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dodecastylos — a dodecastyle building, as a classical temple.
- dog's chance — little likelihood; small chance (usually used in the negative): That project didn't have a dog's chance of succeeding.
- domestic cat — feline kept as a pet
- domestic pig — Sus scrofa; an artiodactyl mammal of the African and Eurasian family Suidae, having a long head with a movable snout and a thick bristle-covered skin
- domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domestically — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- domesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domesticates — Plural form of domesticate.
- domesticized — Simple past tense and past participle of domesticize.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- door scraper — a small horizontal bar fixed to the ground near a door where visitors can scrape mud from their shoes before entering
- doorknockers — Plural form of doorknocker.
- double scull — a racing shell in which two scullers sit one behind the other and pull two oars each
- double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- droseraceous — of or relating to the genus of plants Drosera
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.