12-letter words containing t, o, a, d, s
- disorientate — to disorient.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- dispensation — an act or instance of dispensing; distribution.
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- dispropriate — to deprive of ownership
- disputations — Plural form of disputation.
- disputatious — fond of or given to disputation; argumentative; contentious: disputatious litigants.
- dissapointed — Misspelling of disappointed.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- dissipations — Plural form of dissipation.
- dissociality — the fact or characteristic of being dissocial
- dissociating — Present participle of dissociate.
- dissociation — an act or instance of dissociating.
- dissociative — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- distillation — the volatilization or evaporation and subsequent condensation of a liquid, as when water is boiled in a retort and the steam is condensed in a cool receiver.
- distomatosis — liver-rot.
- distractions — Plural form of distraction.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dodecastylos — a dodecastyle building, as a classical temple.
- domestic cat — feline kept as a pet
- domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domestically — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- domesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domesticates — Plural form of domesticate.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- don't ask me — You reply 'don't ask me' when you do not know the answer to a question, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that you have been asked.
- donatistical — relating to a Donatist or Donatism
- donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- doodly-squat — a minimum amount or degree; the least bit (usually used in the negative): This coin collection isn't worth doodly-squat in today's market.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsolateral — of, relating to, or affecting the back and the side.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- double steal — a play in which two base runners steal a base each.
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dropped seat — a seat of a chair or the like, having a front dished so as to be lower than the sides or back.
- dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
- duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- east detroit — a city in SE Michigan.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- easy does it — If you say 'Easy does it', you are telling someone to be careful and not to use too much effort, especially when they are moving something large and awkward.
- edifications — Plural form of edification.
- editorialise — Alternative spelling of editorialize.