12-letter words containing s, i, e, g, n
- demystifying — Present participle of demystify.
- 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.
- deontologist — ethics, especially that branch dealing with duty, moral obligation, and right action.
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- desalinating — Present participle of desalinate.
- desalinizing — Present participle of desalinize.
- descendingly — In a descending manner.
- desiderating — Present participle of desiderate.
- designations — Plural form of designation.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- devil's dung — asafetida.
- devirginizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devirginize.
- diamagnetism — the phenomenon exhibited by substances that have a relative permeability less than unity and a negative susceptibility. It is caused by the orbital motion of electrons in the atoms of the material and is unaffected by temperature
- die stamping — the production of words or decoration on a surface by using a steel die so that the printed images stand in relief
- digressional — Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
- dimensioning — Present participle of dimension.
- diplogenesis — the double production or formation of something that is normally single, such as a doubled part in a fetus or a double fetus
- disadvantage — absence or deprivation of advantage or equality.
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disappearing — Present participle of disappear.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disburdening — Present participle of disburden.
- discandering — discandying, melting from a state of being candied
- discerningly — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- discrediting — Present participle of discredit.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembedding — Present participle of disembed.
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disenrolling — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disentangled — Simple past tense and past participle of disentangle.
- disentwining — Present participle of disentwine.
- disesteeming — Present participle of disesteem.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disguisement — Disguise (deceptive appearance).
- dishevelling — Present participle of dishevel.
- disinfecting — Present participle of disinfect.
- disingenuine — (proscribed) Disingenuous.
- disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
- disingenuous — lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
- disintegrant — A disintegrant is an agent, used in the preparation of tablets, which causes them to disintegrate and release their medicinal substances on contact with moisture.