12-letter words containing t, e, r, p
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- decipherment — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- 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
- decrepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of decrepitate.
- decrepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrepitate.
- deep therapy — radiotherapy with very penetrating short-wave radiation
- deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- departmental — Departmental is used to describe the activities, responsibilities, or possessions of a department in a government, company, or other organization.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- deportations — Plural form of deportation.
- depositaries — Plural form of depositary.
- depositories — Plural form of depository.
- depreciating — Present participle of depreciate.
- depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
- depreciative — Tending to depreciate (in value etc.).
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- deprotonated — Simple past tense and past participle of deprotonate.
- depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
- derived type — (programming) A type constructed from primitive types or other derived types using a type constructor function. This term is usually applied to procedural languages such as C or Ada. C's derived types are the array, function, pointer, structure, and union. Compare derived class.
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- descriptions — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
- descriptives — Plural form of descriptive.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- dessertspoon — A dessertspoon is a spoon which is midway between the size of a teaspoon and a tablespoon. You use it to eat desserts.
- deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
- dinner party — social gathering over evening meal
- dinner plate — a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
- diphtheritic — pertaining to diphtheria.
- diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- dipropellant — bipropellant.
- direct input — a device, such as a keyboard, used to insert data directly into a computerized system
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- discerptible — capable of being torn apart; divisible.
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- disoperation — a relationship between two organisms in a community that is harmful to both
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- dispersement — Misspelling of disbursement.
- dispiritedly — discouraged; dejected; disheartened; gloomy.
- dispiritment — the state of being dispirited
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- dispropriate — to deprive of ownership