12-letter words containing s, u, r, d, i
- 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)
- 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
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
- discongruity — incongruity.
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourteous — not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- discursively — In a discursive manner.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disgruntling — Present participle of disgruntle.
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disjunctures — Plural form of disjuncture.
- dispauperize — to free (a person) from the state of being a pauper
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disquisitory — of or relating to disquisition
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
- distributees — Plural form of distributee.
- distributers — a person or thing that distributes.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributism — a socioeconomic theory and system advocating widespread ownership of private property and the means of production: based on late 19th-century Catholic teachings on economic and social justice.
- distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- distributors — Plural form of distributor.
- distrustless — without suspicion or distrust
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- divestitures — Plural form of divestiture.
- doloriferous — causing pain or sadness, dolorific
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- 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.