12-letter words containing t, e, l, n
- dicotyledons — Plural form of dicotyledon.
- diesel train — a train hauled by a diesel locomotive or powered by a diesel engine
- diethylamine — (organic compound) The secondary amine (CH3CH2)2NH.
- differential — of or relating to difference or diversity.
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- dilaceration — the act of dilacerating.
- dilatoriness — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- dilettantish — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
- dilettantism — the practices or characteristics of a dilettante.
- diminutively — In a diminutive manner.
- dining table — a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
- dinner plate — a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
- dinner table — dining table.
- dinucleotide — a molecule composed of two nucleotide subunits.
- dipropellant — bipropellant.
- dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.
- disconsolate — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- discretional — discretionary.
- disentangled — Simple past tense and past participle of disentangle.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- disjointedly — In a disjointed manner.
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- distanceless — without distance
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- dual citizen — a person who is a citizen or subject of two or more nations; one having dual citizenship.
- ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- earsplitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earth almond — chufa.
- east anglian — an early English kingdom in SE Britain: modern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- east lansing — a city in S Michigan.