12-letter words starting with di
- disconnected — disjointed; broken.
- disconnector — (electrical engineering) A switching device used to open an electric circuit when there is no current through it. They are used to isolate a part of an electrical system to allow the maintenance staff a safe access to it.
- disconsolate — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- disconsonant — Not consonant; discordant.
- discontented — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
- discontinued — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discontinues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discontinue.
- discordantly — disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh.
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourteous — not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- discrediting — Present participle of discredit.
- discreetness — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discrepances — Plural form of discrepance.
- discreteness — apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.
- discretional — discretionary.
- discretively — in a discretive manner
- discriminant — a relatively simple expression that determines some of the properties, as the nature of the roots, of a given equation or function.
- discriminate — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- discursively — In a discursive manner.
- discussional — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- disdainfully — full of or showing disdain; scornful.
- diseasedness — The state of being diseased; sickness.
- diseconomies — Plural form of diseconomy.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembarrass — to disentangle or extricate from something troublesome, embarrassing, or the like.
- disembedding — Present participle of disembed.
- disembellish — (transitive) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- disemboweled — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disembroiled — Simple past tense and past participle of disembroil.
- disempowered — Simple past tense and past participle of disempower.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disenchanter — One who disenchants.
- disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
- disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
- disenrolling — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disentangled — Simple past tense and past participle of disentangle.
- disentranced — to bring out of an entranced condition; disenchant.
- disentwining — Present participle of disentwine.
- disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- disesteeming — Present participle of disesteem.