12-Letter Words Starting with D

English word

Deacidify

ACTIVATING activate

Process of stopping something working

Deactivator

Deathwatch

Debauchery

Debouchment

Decalcify

The process of transferring pictures or designs printed on specially prepared paper to materials such as glass or metal.

Decantation

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

Strange patina to iced topping

An action that leaves the head isolated

Fate of Anne Boleyn

Decapitator

CARBONATED Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.

Decarbonate

Inflected form of CARBONIZED Inflected form of CARBONIZE To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

""He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.""

Decarbonize

Inflected form of CARBURIZED Inflected form of CARBURIZE To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

Decarburize

Having ten syllables

A line of verse having ten syllables.

Slowing down

A slowing down

Reduction in the going rate

Slowing of velocity

Decelerator

Decemvirate

""To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.""

Inflected form of CEREBRATED Inflected form of CEREBRATE To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

Decerebrate

Decertify

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

""(may take a clause or an infinitive as object; when intr, sometimes foll by on or about) to reach a decision decide what you want he decided to go""

""DECIMALIZE To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. as, to decimalize the currency.""

""Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable. as, old writings not decipherable.""

The act of deciphering.

Ability to settle issues

Ability to quickly settle issues

Declamation

Assertions from Aldi: 'Tesco ran badly'

Announcements made when there are enough on the board

Having a security classification removed so as to be open to public inspection; -- of documents or information.

Declassify

Belonging to declension.

Declination

Decollation

Decolletage

COLONIZING colonize

Decolorizer

COLORIZING colorize

Body that busted a Brooklyn gangster

Take (eg, a warship) out of operation

Promise not to fire editor coming back to ask journalist to say something

""COMPENSATE To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.""

Gloomy supporting party, Green politician: 'Cuts can be broken down'

Decompress

Decompress

Decondition

Medicine to unblock the nose

Medicine clearing airways

Catarrh reliever

Decongest

Decongest

Decongest

A cut in churchman's city rank gives cause to become secular

Deconstruct

CONTROLLED control

Decorative

DECOROUS {proper=adj}

CORTICATED Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.

Decorticate

""A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.""

Decreasing

""Inflected form of CREPITATED Inflected form of CREPITATE To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.""

Decrepitate

Decrepitude

Decrescendo

Decussation

Defalcation

Deficiency

Deforcement

Degeneracy

GLACIATION Act of freezing.

Deification

Lowness of spirits

Delectation

Not 1 across (as in selected outlets)

Mayo clinic (wordplay)

Tender foreign money around second shop

Becoming liquid

LIQUESCING liquesce

Deliverance

LOCALIZING localize

Boundaries of specific areas

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Democratize

Auto marketing strategy statistics

Data on population structures

In a demoniacal manner.

Conclusion is to include North Carolina in the criticism

Conclusion is to include North Carolina for criticism

""Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.""

Inflected form of NUCLEARIZE Inflected form of NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

Strong public criticism

Public condemnation of awful auctioned inn

What the whistleblower is capable of is informing

Same as Denunciatory. Denunciatory.

""Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language. as, severe and denunciatory language.""

Dependency

Inflected form of POLITICIZE Inflected form of POLITIC {shrewd=adj}

Deprecation

Losing value with time

Expressing disapproval about one losing value

It never goes up in financial crash

Gradual loss of value

Loss in value

""Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing.""

Depreciator

Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.

DERACINATE To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

Act of uprooting

I worried about body of people being uprooted

Dereliction

The branch of medicine that is concerned with the physiology and pathology of the skin.

Inflected form of SACRALIZED Inflected form of SACRALIZE

Desacralize

Pictures inspired Scot to be moved

Sketches depict sins or misbehaving

Desecration

Desiccation

Despondence

How Ivan the Terrible ruled

Able to be demolished

Easily destroyed

Is capable of being spoiled in the little pig's house of straw presumably

Destruction

DETACHED detach

Detergency

DETOXICATE to remove poison from.

TOXICATION Poisoning.

Detractive

Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.

DEUTERANOPE

VOCALIZING vocalize

Adjective (-ic)

In devilish manner

In a devilish manner

""Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism.""

""DIAGNOSTIC Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.""

In the form of a simplified drawing

Graphic figure has many a convulsion

One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.

That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.

In the manner or nature of a dialogue.

Diaphoretic

""Consisting of or containing diatoms or their fossils; as, diatomaceous earth (used as a component of dynamite).as, diatomaceous earth (used as a component of dynamite).""

In a diatonic manner.

Containing two carboxyl groups per molecule.

Dichlorvos

DICHOTIC affecting the two ears differently

Dichotomist

DICHOTOMIZE To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

Dichotomize

The state of being dichromatic.

Dichroscope

Dicotyledon

It's not popular, as a rule

Form of rule

Stalin's fashionable way of governing

Books for every term

Sign on delivery for reference books

Students may use them for every term

Dictyostele

In a didactic manner.

Didacticism

""The posterior part of the forebrain that connects the midbrain with the cerebral hemispheres, encloses the third ventricle, and contains the thalamus and hypothalamus. Also called betweenbrain , interbrain , thalamencephalon .""

The interbrain or thalamencephalon; sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon. dien. See Thalamencephalon.

In a dietetical manner.

""DIFFERENCE The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty? as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?""

Part 2 of quip

Part 4 of quip

Troubles

Diffraction

(Chemistry) a compound having two sites in the molecule that are highly reactive

Diglyceride

An instrument used to measure thermal expansion and dilation in solids and liquids.

Dimercaprol

A molecule that consists of a combination of two nucleotides.

""Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.""

Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

Diplodocus

Those who drink and swim thus - lunatics!

Dipterocarp

DIRECTED direct

Directness

Directorate

The condition or office of a director; directorate.

Directress

Double sugar / Travel freely? merger (nonverbal)

Disaccord

Disaccustom

Disaffect

Alienation; ill-will

Alienation

The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

Cut off from detective's sidekick

Sever ties, as with a group

Disconnect, separate

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

Discernment

The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.

Relating to rules of conduct

Revulsive love photos in journal about correction

Discipliner

""DISCIPLINE The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.""

A disavowing or disowning.

Phonograph Records

Phonograph Records

Discomfit

Uneasy or embarrassed state

Embarrassment

Embarrassment.

Made uneasy

Discommend

DISCOMMODE To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

COMPOSING compose

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

Germany is united - and worried!

Second credit (anagram) - thrown

Disturbed the composure of

Disconfirm

Lacking a logical sequence

(Of speech) lacking a logical sequence

Underworld had contacts, or perhaps it didn't

Record terribly neat solo, getting down!

Merges into a big company

Sad; beyond comfort

Experiencing dissatisfaction

Unhappy woman's against temporary home provided by man

Party with any number under canvas makes one unhappy