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12-letter words containing t, e, a, d

  • deactivating — Present participle of deactivate.
  • deactivation — The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb.
  • dead account — an account that is no longer being used and on which no transactions have taken place for a considerable length of time
  • dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
  • dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
  • deadbeat dad — a father who neglects his responsibilities as a parent, esp. one who does not pay child support to his estranged wife.
  • deafferented — Simple past tense and past participle of deafferent.
  • deallocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
  • deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
  • dearticulate — to disjoint, dislocate, or separate (something)
  • deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
  • death camass — any liliaceous plant of the genus Zygadenus (or Zigadenus), of the western US, that is poisonous to livestock, esp sheep
  • death duties — Death duties were a tax which had to be paid on the money and property of someone who had died. This tax is now called inheritance tax.
  • death notice — a public announcement, e.g. in a newspaper, that someone has died
  • death rattle — If you say that one thing is the death rattle of another, you mean that the first thing is a sign that very soon the second thing will come to an end.
  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • death threat — a threat to kill someone
  • death throes — The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
  • death valley — a desert valley in E California and W Nevada: the lowest, hottest, and driest area of the US. Lowest point: 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. Area: about 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
  • death's-head — a human skull or a representation of one
  • deathmatches — Plural form of deathmatch.
  • deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
  • debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
  • debilitation — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
  • debilitative — producing or bringing about a weakened state
  • decaffeinate — to remove all or part of the caffeine from (coffee, tea, etc)
  • decahydrates — Plural form of decahydrate.
  • decapacitate — To reduce something's or someone's capability to do something.
  • decapitalise — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decapitalize — to make difficult to have or to take away stock or wealth from
  • decapitating — Present participle of decapitate.
  • decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
  • decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
  • decarbonated — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonate.
  • decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • decelerating — Present participle of decelerate.
  • deceleration — to decrease the velocity of: He decelerates the bobsled when he nears a curve.
  • decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
  • decentralise — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
  • decentralist — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • decentralize — To decentralize government or a large organization means to move some departments away from the main administrative area, or to give more power to local departments.
  • decentration — The removal of something from a centre.
  • decerebrated — Simple past tense and past participle of decerebrate.
  • dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
  • decidability — the capability of being decided
  • deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
  • declamations — Plural form of declamation.
  • declarations — Plural form of declaration.
  • declinations — Plural form of declination.
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