12-letter words that end in ent
- counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
- county agent — a government employee who gives advice on agriculture in a rural area
- cross potent — a cross with equal arms, each of which ends in a bar
- crosscurrent — a current in a river or sea flowing across another current
- cunctipotent — (obsolete) almighty; all-powerful.
- dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.
- decipherment — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- deflowerment — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- deliquescent — the act or process of deliquescing.
- demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
- denouncement — to condemn or censure openly or publicly: to denounce a politician as morally corrupt.
- dethronement — to remove from a throne; depose.
- developement — Obsolete spelling of development.
- diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disguisement — Disguise (deceptive appearance).
- dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- disinterment — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- dispensement — Dispensation (handing out or distribution).
- dispersement — Misspelling of disbursement.
- dispiritment — the state of being dispirited
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- docutainment — infotainment (def 2).
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
- e-government — the provision of government information and services by means of the internet and other computer resources
- eddy current — an electric current in a conducting material that results from induction by a moving or varying magnetic field.
- effervescent — effervescing; bubbling.
- efflorescent — efflorescing; blossoming.
- embarassment — Misspelling of embarrassment.
- embattlement — (countable) A battlement.
- embetterment — (obsolete, now used only as a nonstandard neologism) improvement, betterment.
- embezzlement — Theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one's trust or belonging to one's employer.
- embitterment — (uncountable) The state of being embittered.
- emblazonment — The act of emblazoning.
- embranchment — A branching forth, as of trees for example.
- empressement — Animated eagerness or friendliness; effusion.
- encipherment — The act or process of enciphering; encryption.
- encirclement — The act of encircling or the state of being encircled.
- encoffinment — The preparation of the body of a deceased person and placement of it in a coffin, especially in a ceremonial or ritualistic manner.
- encroachment — Intrusion on a person's territory, rights, etc.
- encumberment — the act of being encumbered