12-Letter Words Starting with D

Directress

Physical limitations

Disablement

Double sugar / Travel freely? merger (nonverbal)

Dad navigates criminal stumbling block

Put in an unfavourable position

Unfavourable circumstance

Disaffect

Alienation; ill-will

Alienation

End an attachment to an organisation

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

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

Ensure there is no mistake about meaning - misguide a bat (anagram)

*Part of many a magic act

Fading rum dip gains when fruit is added

Doctor finally is paged and pain unexpectedly is vanishing

Let down after daughter is given a job

Sad and let-down

Crestfallen as Democrat is elected

Disapprover

Disarmament

ASSEMBLED assemble

Disassemble

Cut off from detective's sidekick

Sever ties, as with a group

Disconnect, separate

Disbandment

Disbeliever

BELIEVING believe

Disbowel

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

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

Discipliner

Phonograph Records

Uneasy or embarrassed state

Embarrassment

Embarrassment.

Made uneasy

Discommend

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

No longer produced

Can no longer order detectives to press on with head of department

Stops selling record, not in use after remix

Discordance

Where go-go crowds go.

Girl's payments, of a kind, covering old-time musical entertainment

""Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank. as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.""

Discourager

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

Use taste and judgment (or prejudice)

Understand the difference (between)

Perceive a difference (between)

Discursive

Diseconomy

Bad-mouth travel (wordplay)

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

Disembody

EMBOGUING embogue

Disembowel

Having lost one's fascination

Saddened by frustrated expectations

Let down after altering hidden stance (wordplay)

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

Disencumber

The taking away of funds and property (from an established church)

Disentail

Completed taking in broken nets, with fish extricated

Disentangle

Disenthrall

ENTITLING entitle

Rescind imprimatur from southern Balti dishes

Deprive of official status as one's turned tables in ruin

Disesteem

""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

Disguise.

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

Dishevel

Dishonesty

Base (for an American)

Vince inside Tory leader could be off-putting

Damper

Fast incident involved medical agent

Liquid that kills bacteria

Liquid destroying bacteria

Disinfect

Medical safeguard against underworld disease

INFESTANT

Disinfest

Not straightforward or candid

Not sincere

Disguise noun out of hand? That's not fair!

Not allowed to succeed (wordplay)

The victims of 9 (wordplay)

Written out of a will

Disinhibit

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

Disinvest

Disjointed

Disjunctive

Disjuncture

Removal from a fixed position

Dislodgment

Disloyalty

Dismalness

Taking (body) apart

Dismissive

Bad-mouth good behavior (wordplay)

The failure to comply

Failure to do as one's told

Disordered

ORGANIZED organize

Disorganize

Is East in time for puzzle (wordplay)

Cause to lose bearings

Cause (someone) to lose their bearings

Disorient

Dispensary

Exemption (from a rule)

Exemption (from the usual requirements)

Exemption (from usual requirement)

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

Dispersive

Dispirited

Capable of being displaced.

Shift hell's location (wordplay)

Amount of movement

Measure of ship's size

Displeasure

Disportment

Deprived of land/property

Bereft by Berryman

Deprived of property or land

Dispossess

One who dispossesses.

Removed from competition

Ruled inadmissible

Not allowed to race? It's why some people are driven!

Disqualify

Disquietude

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

Not content, unhappy

Not pleased lady's paid in full

Not contented

Dissatisfy

Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance.

Disseminate

One who spreads (something) widely

Disseminule

Dissentient

Dissepiment

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.

DISSIMILATE To render dissimilar.

Dissimilate

SIMULATED simulate

Dissimulate

Dissipated

Tending or leading to dissociation.

Dissuasive

Dissyllable

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

Immoderate.

Distemper

Laphroaig, Glenfiddich and Macallan

Places with plenty of alcohol

They raise the spirits

The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things.

""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.

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

Distributee

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

Gambles crossing street of city in riots

Riots

Disutility

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

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

DIVIDEND a quantity to be divided

State causing dissension

Divorcement

Doctrinaire

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

""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

""Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.""

Doggedness

DOLOROUS {mournful=adj}

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Eddie's tomcat might well be!

Tamed like a pet

Accustomed to home life

Domesticate

DOMICILIATE To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

Domiciliate

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