12-letter words containing sa
- criticisable — Alternative form of criticizable.
- crossability — the quality of being crossable
- crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- cyma reversa — a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.
- deck passage — overnight accommodation on a vessel other than in a regular sleeping space.
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- demonisation — the act of demonising
- desacralized — Simple past tense and past participle of desacralize.
- desacralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desacralize.
- desalinating — Present participle of desalinate.
- desalination — Desalination is the process of removing salt from sea water so that it can be used for drinking, or for watering crops.
- desalinizing — Present participle of desalinize.
- desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- descamisados — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- digitisation — The conversion of data from analog to digital or binary.
- dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- disabilities — Plural form of disability.
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.
- disaccharide — any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- disaccordant — not agreeing
- disadvantage — absence or deprivation of advantage or equality.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- disaffection — the absence or alienation of affection or goodwill; estrangement; disloyalty: Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
- disaffiliate — to sever affiliation with; disassociate: He disaffiliated himself from the political group he had once led.
- disaggregate — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disagreeance — (obsolete) disagreement.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disamenities — Plural form of disamenity.
- disanalogous — not analogous
- disappearing — Present participle of disappear.
- disappointed — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
- disapproving — Expressing an unfavorable opinion.
- disarranging — Present participle of disarrange.
- disassembled — Simple past tense and past participle of disassemble.
- disassembler — A program for converting machine code into a low-level symbolic language.
- disassembles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disassemble.
- disassociate — to dissociate.
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)