12-letter words containing s, i, d
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- dipsomaniacs — Plural form of dipsomaniac.
- dipsy-doodle — a quick dipping, sliding motion of the body, as made by ball carriers in football to evade tacklers.
- directed set — (theory) A set X is directed under some relation, <= (less than or equal), if it is non-empty and if for any two elements x and y there exists an element z such that x <= z and y <= z. I.e. all pairs have an upper bound.
- directedness — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- directorates — Plural form of directorate.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- dirty tricks — underhand activities and machinations in political or governmental affairs, usually intended to discredit an opponent
- disabilities — Plural form of disability.
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- disaccordant — not agreeing
- disadvantage — absence or deprivation of advantage or equality.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- disaffection — the absence or alienation of affection or goodwill; estrangement; disloyalty: Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
- disaffiliate — to sever affiliation with; disassociate: He disaffiliated himself from the political group he had once led.
- disaggregate — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disamenities — Plural form of disamenity.
- disanalogous — not analogous
- disappearing — Present participle of disappear.
- disappointed — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
- disapproving — Expressing an unfavorable opinion.
- disarranging — Present participle of disarrange.
- disassembled — Simple past tense and past participle of disassemble.
- disassembler — A program for converting machine code into a low-level symbolic language.
- disassembles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disassemble.
- disassociate — to dissociate.
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disbelievers — Plural form of disbeliever.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disburdening — Present participle of disburden.
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
- discalceated — Deprived of shoes or sandals.
- discandering — discandying, melting from a state of being candied
- discarnation — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
- discerningly — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- discerptible — capable of being torn apart; divisible.
- discipleship — (initial capital letter) a member of the Disciples of Christ.