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12-letter words that end in n

  • 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.
  • diprionidian — (of a graptolite) with a row of cellules or serrations on both sides
  • disaffection — the absence or alienation of affection or goodwill; estrangement; disloyalty: Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
  • discarnation — without a physical body; incorporeal.
  • disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
  • disclamation — the act of disclaiming; renunciation; disavowal.
  • discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
  • disgradation — a deposition of rank or status
  • disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
  • disinfection — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
  • disinflation — a period or process of slowing the rate of inflation.
  • disinherison — Disherison.
  • disoperation — a relationship between two organisms in a community that is harmful to both
  • dispensation — an act or instance of dispensing; distribution.
  • disquisition — a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed; dissertation.
  • dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
  • dissociation — an act or instance of dissociating.
  • 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.
  • distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
  • distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
  • district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
  • divarication — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
  • divinization — The act or process of making divine.
  • doctrinarian — A doctrinaire.
  • doctrination — (nonstandard) indoctrination.
  • dodecagynian — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
  • dodecahedron — a solid figure having 12 faces.
  • dolly varden — a woman's costume of the late 19th century, including a flower-trimmed, broad-brimmed hat and a dress consisting of a tight bodice and bouffant panniers in a flower print over a calf-length quilted petticoat.
  • 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.
  • door curtain — a curtain that fills a doorway
  • dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
  • dot notation — (networking)   Berkeley Unix notation for an Internet address, consisting of one to four numbers (a "dotted quad") in hexadecimal (leading 0x), octal (leading 0), or (usually) decimal. It represents a 32-bit address. Each leading number represents eight bits of the address (high byte first) and the last number represents the rest. E.g. address 0x25.32.0xab represents 0x252000ab. By far the most common form is four decimal numbers, e.g. 146.169.22.42. Many programs accept an address in dot notation in place of a hostname.
  • double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
  • draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
  • draw curtain — a curtain, opening at the middle, that can be drawn to the sides of a stage.
  • 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.
  • dripping pan — a shallow pan placed under roasting meat to catch the dripping
  • driving iron — Golf. a club with a long shaft and an iron head the face of which has almost no slope, for hitting long, low drives.
  • drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
  • dual citizen — a person who is a citizen or subject of two or more nations; one having dual citizenship.
  • ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
  • dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
  • duodecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 39 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 72 zeros.
  • duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
  • early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
  • earth return — the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to earth at each end
  • east african — of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants
  • east anglian — an early English kingdom in SE Britain: modern Norfolk and Suffolk.
  • east lothian — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
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