12-Letter Words Containing R

Dipterocarp

DIRECTED direct

Directness

Directorate

The condition or office of a director; directorate.

Directress

Double sugar / Travel freely? merger (nonverbal)

Disaccord

Disaffirm

Separate into component parts

With beagles, a ride turned out nasty

Like some weather.

End of the quote

In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.

Demagnetiser smashed in quarrel

Row of detectives with squad in a salute

Quarrel leading to underworld contract

*Part of many a magic act

Fading rum dip gains when fruit is added

Doctor finally is paged and pain unexpectedly is vanishing

Disapproval

Disapprover

Builder providing spa is critical

Critical of detective's program going out of range

Disarmament

ARRANGING arrange

Disastrous

Disbeliever

Disburden

Payment of money from a fund

Partner having left, really in debt, sums wasted, money spent!

In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely.

Discernment

Relating to rules of conduct

Revulsive love photos in journal about correction

Discipliner

Phonograph Records

Phonograph Records

Uneasy or embarrassed state

Embarrassment

Embarrassment.

Made uneasy

The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation.

Germany is united - and worried!

Second credit (anagram) - thrown

Disturbed the composure of

Disconfirm

Discordance

Discordant

Discourager

Putting (someone) off

Dashing hopes, record the passing of our youth (wordplay)

With noisy entertainment old city getting older is off-putting

Rude detective imprisons one polite type

Rude, inconsiderate

Ill-mannered

""Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.""

Discredit

DISCREET {tactful=adj}

Discrepant

DISCRETE separate

The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant. n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant.

Use taste and judgment (or prejudice)

Understand the difference (between)

Perceive a difference (between)

Discursive

Bad-mouth travel (wordplay)

""To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.""

""One who, or that which, disenchants.""

Disencumber

Disenthrall

""To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.""

Disfurnish

Disfurnish

GRUNTLING gruntle

Disharmony

""HARMONIZE To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize. as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.""

Down - becoming dn (wordplay)

Having lost determination or confidence

Upset, she denied art was constructive

Base (for an American)

Shameful way to leave the service

Not allowed to succeed (wordplay)

The victims of 9 (wordplay)

Written out of a will

Fall apart - it isn't agreed (anagram)

Agreed it isn't about to fall apart!

Setter aiding anagram break up

Disinterest

Digging up (of a body)

The digging up of a body

Exhumation

Disinter

Disjuncture

Taking (body) apart

Disordered

ORGANIZED organize

Disorganize

Is East in time for puzzle (wordplay)

Cause to lose bearings

Cause (someone) to lose their bearings

Disorient

Dispensary

Girl with something to tell? Writes article in that medical book

Dispersive

Dispirited

Displeasure

Disportment

One who dispossesses.

Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.

Ignoring dangers, rigid surprisingly

Disrelation

Disrelish

Disremember

Lacking public estimation

Not of decent character

Superb detail (anagram) -shady

In a disreputable manner.

Disrespect

Disruptive

One who spreads (something) widely

DISSERTATE To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.

Essay may be seen as sanitised rot

Essay for a degree or diploma

To a degree you have to defend it

Dissertator

The act of disserving; separation.

Disseverance.

In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

Immoderate.

Distemper

Laphroaig, Glenfiddich and Macallan

Places with plenty of alcohol

They raise the spirits

""DISTORTION The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body. as, the distortions of the face or body.""

""TRACTABLE Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. as, tractable children; a tractable learner.""

Disjointedly; madly.

Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.

Distraction

""Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.""

Distraught

Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.

Distributee

Handing out

Most of the issue is charged and leads to handouts

Apportionment

Give out to missing Egyptian leader on charge of supplying demand

Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.

Distributor

Gambles crossing street of city in riots

Riots

Disturbing

Ditchdigger

""Of or relating to a verb that takes or can take two objects, as begrudge in I don't begrudge you your good luck, or find in She found him a job.""

DIURETIC a drug which increases urinary discharge

DIVARICATE To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

Divergency

Diversifier

I had turned up poet's work showing more variety

Intended to distract attention

Programme in radio's very distracting

Like some tactics journal containing one account

""DIVERSION The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business. as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.""

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

Pl. divertimentos or divertimenti (-t ) A chiefly 18th-century form of instrumental chamber music having several short movements. Also called divertissement .

Light musical piece

Light orchestral work

Piece of music Verdi arranged, with tempo not changed

Divestiture

Divorcement

Doctrinaire

""Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides.""

Twelve-faced solid

Any polyhedron having 12 plane faces

Hooded dancer in motion revealing solid figure

DOLOROUS {mournful=adj}

DOMINATE to {control=v}

DOPAMINE a form of dopa used to stimulate the heart

Ghostly double of a live person

Living person's double

Ghostly lookalike of a human

""Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral. dorsiventral.""

Of or involving both the back and the side.

""From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis. as, the dorsoventral axis.""

Back-to-back baseball games

July 4th tradition.

Marathon at Camden Yards

Douroucouli

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

Doxorubicin

Draftiness

A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.

Excitingly, it's a play with jerk close to friend

Scene from Rising? It is caught by friend theatrically!

Silly Tracy, maid hugging everyone in exaggerated fashion

Capable of being dramatized.

Dramaturgy

Abstract noun (-ity)

The quality of being dreadful.

Turreted battleships

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

Dreaminess

Dreariness

Dressiness

Dressmaking

Abstract noun (-ity)

Dentists (wordplay)

Dentists?

Suitable or fit for drinking; potable: drinkable water.

The act of driving.

Drivenness

A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.

Drowsiness

Drumbeating

Drysaltery

DUMBFOUNDER dumbfound

""A glassy pink, green, violet, or blue aluminum borosilicate mineral, Al 8 BSi 3 O 19 OH, used in spark-plug ceramics and as imitation lapis lazuli.""

Thickheaded; stupid.

Durability

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

Dynamometer

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

Difficult and painful menstruation.

Dysrhythmia

Awfully patient with Girls Aloud? Very!

Painfully noisy in the grain division

Very loud and shrill

Earthenware

Earthiness

Earthmoving

Extraordinary achievers

Momentous - hat shrinkage (anagram)

Of great consequence

Very important or shocking

Earwitness

Part of roof subsided? Must be monitored

Listened secretly

Secretly overheard

Reproved apes (anagram)

Wiretapper, for example

Secret listener

Slight strangeness (of character)

Unconventional behaviour

Strange behaviour

B-school statistical subject

""(used with a sing. verb) Application of mathematical and statistical techniques to economics in the study of problems, the analysis of data, and the development and testing of theories and models.""

Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; opposed to endoparasite. endoparasite.

EDITORIALISE editorial

Be subjective when one should be objective

EDULCORATE To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.

Bubbly

Fizzy

Sparkling

""EFFERVESCE To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.""

""That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt. as, an efflorescent salt.""

EFFLORESCE To blossom forth.

Easily, simply

Effrontery

Presumably they will be keen on evening classes