12-letter words containing y
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- demoniacally — In a demoniacal manner.
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demystifying — Present participle of demystify.
- demythifying — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- denitrifying — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
- denotatively — having power to denote.
- densitometry — Photography. an instrument for measuring the density of negatives.
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- deny a claim — If an insurance company denies a claim, it refuses to pay a claim submitted by a policyholder.
- deny oneself — to do without desired things
- deoxygenated — to remove oxygen from (a substance, as blood or water).
- deoxygenized — Simple past tense and past participle of deoxygenize.
- deoxymannose — rhamnose.
- depolymerize — to break (a polymer) into constituent monomers or (of a polymer) to decompose in this way
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- depressively — In a depressive manner.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derivatively — derived.
- 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
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- descendingly — In a descending manner.
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
- despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- determinedly — resolute; staunch: the determined defenders of the Alamo.
- detonability — the quality of being detonable
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
- devitrifying — Present participle of devitrify.
- devotionally — In a devotional manner.
- dextrogyrate — having dextrorotation
- diabolically — having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked: a diabolic plot.
- dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.