12-letter words containing si
- disinherison — Disherison.
- disinherited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinherit.
- disinhibited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinhibit.
- disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
- disintegrant — A disintegrant is an agent, used in the preparation of tablets, which causes them to disintegrate and release their medicinal substances on contact with moisture.
- disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disinterment — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- disinterring — Present participle of disinter.
- disintricate — (transitive) To disentangle.
- disinvesting — Present participle of disinvest.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- dismissingly — In a dismissing manner; dismissively.
- dismissively — indicating dismissal or rejection; having the purpose or effect of dismissing, as from one's presence or from consideration: a curt, dismissive gesture.
- dispositions — Plural form of disposition.
- disquisition — a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed; dissertation.
- disquisitive — Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; inquisitive.
- disquisitory — of or relating to disquisition
- dissimilarly — In a dissimilar way; differently.
- dissimilated — Simple past tense and past participle of dissimilate.
- dissimulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dissimulate.
- dissimulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissimulate.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- dissipations — Plural form of dissipation.
- dissuasively — In a dissuasive manner.
- distaff side — the female side of a family (opposed to spear side).
- distomatosis — liver-rot.
- district six — an area of Cape Town that was inhabited by a racially mixed community until it was forcibly removed in 1966
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- divisibility — the capacity of being divided.
- divisiveness — forming or expressing division or distribution.
- 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.
- dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dosing strip — (in New Zealand) an area set aside for treating dogs suspected of having hydatid disease
- double-sided — double-faced (defs 2, 3).
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- dysaesthesia — a disagreeable sensation such as burning or itching arising from impairment of the nervous system
- dysesthesias — Plural form of dysesthesia.
- e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
- east lansing — a city in S Michigan.
- east prussia — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- ecclesiastes — a book of the Bible. Abbreviation: Eccl., Eccles.
- ecclesiastic — a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders.
- ecclesiology — the study of ecclesiastical adornments and furnishings.
- economy size — product: large, inexpensive
- economy-size — larger in size and costing less per unit of measurement than a smaller size: an economy-size box of soap flakes.
- ectoparasite — an external parasite (opposed to endoparasite).