12-Letter Words Starting with D

The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.

Damselfish

Evel Knievel's forte

DAUGHTER a female {child=n}

Adjective meaning resembling

Daylighting

DEADLINESS The quality of being deadly.

Causing weakness

""The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.""

Decalcify

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

Having ten syllables

A line of verse having ten syllables.

Slowing down

A slowing down

Reduction in the going rate

Slowing of velocity

Decelerator

""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.""

""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.""

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

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

CONTROLLED control

Decorative

Decreasing

Men hunting wild elks arrested

Defalcation

Inflected form of FIBRILLATE Inflected form of FIBRILLAE fibrilla

Like this crossword

In a definitive manner.

""DEFLAGRATE To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.""

Burning away of a substance

Tending to reduce prices in the economy

Defloration

Defoliation

""FORMALIZED concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms, especially in religion or art; using formalism; as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".""

Deformalize

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

GLACIATION Act of freezing.

Inflected form of GLAMORIZED Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Deglamorize

Deglutition

Degressive

English word

LAMINATING laminate

Formation and separation of lamin\'91 or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

Delectation

Consciously and intentionally

Aggravated by lie altered on purpose

Bet die really rolls slowly

Considering adding carpeting to foodstore

PANNING THE COLD CUTS SHOP

Considering rearrest (wordplay)

Long and careful consideration

Thought on the continent of freedom

""Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body. as, a deliberative body.""

Not 1 across (as in selected outlets)

Mayo clinic (wordplay)

Tender foreign money around second shop

In a very pleasing manner

In a pleasing way

The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.

Delineation

So as to fail in duty.

Becoming liquid

LIQUESCING liquesce

Deliverance

LOCALIZING localize

DELUSIVE tending to delude

""MILITARIZE to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.""

MINERALIZE To transform into a mineral.

MOBILIZING mobilize

MODULATING modulate

Extraction of a signal from its carrier

Demodulator

Demolition.

In a demoniacal manner.

Demonology

""One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.""

Able to be proved

Verified animal registered in beasty home

It's evident, devil gets last sinner in firm

In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly.

Demoralizer

Discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.encouraging.

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

Dendrology

Good tendrils could excite this type of plant expert

""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}

Deontology

One versed in deontology.

Go mad and get sectioned

Organised in units, go crazy

Go mad from division

Depilatory

Depolarizer

POLARIZING polarize

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

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

POPULATING populate

Reduction in inhabitants

Loss of inhabitants

POSITIONAL Of or pertaining to position.

In a depressing manner.

Depressive

REGULATING regulate

Removal of restrictions

Restrictions being removed? Lie around and get sozzled

Dereliction

Relating to development from a source or origin

Relating to the formation of a word from its root

Derivative

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

In a derogatory manner; disparagingly.

Inflected form of SACRALIZED Inflected form of SACRALIZE

Desacralize

""DESALINATE to remove the salt from, especially from water; as, it is necessary to desalinate sea water to make it fit to drink.as, it is necessary to desalinate sea water to make it fit to drink.""

Deal is arranged with people for main treatment (wordplay)

Purification process that could be organised by Ionian Sea Ltd (wordplay)

Newly nationalised water company may carry this out

Desalinator

SALINIZING salinize

Inflected form of SEXUALIZED Inflected form of SEXUALIZE To attribute sex to.

Desexualize

Attractiveness

The state of being desolate.

Desolating

Despairing

Despiteful

Despitefully.

Despoilment

A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

Dejectedly, hopelessly

How Ivan the Terrible ruled

Inflected form of STABILIZED Inflected form of STABILIZE

Destabilize

Able to be demolished

Easily destroyed

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

Inflected form of SULFURIZED Inflected form of SULFURIZE

Desulfurize

DETAILED detail

Detassel

Capable of being decided upon

Capable of being fixed to put off a nimble arrangement

TERMINABLY

In a determined manner; with determination.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Detractive

DETRIBALIZE to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their cultural identity and adopt other customs.

Detribalize

Detrimental

Devaluation

MTD envelopes (anagram)

Move Len's dept (anagram)

Advances in a process

DEVILISH {fiendish=adj}

VITALIZING vitalize

VOCALIZING vocalize

In a devotional manner; toward devotion.

In devilish manner

In a devilish manner

DIAGNOSE to identify a disease by symptoms

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

DIAGONALIZE to transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix.

Diagonalize

""A plan, sketch, drawing, or outline designed to demonstrate or explain how something works or to clarify the relationship between the parts of a whole.""

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.

Translucently.

In a diatonic manner.

Containing two carboxyl groups per molecule.

Dichlorvos

DICHOTIC affecting the two ears differently

Dicotyledon

Dictyostele

In a didactic manner.

""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.

Sort of gear - sort of equation

Distinguishing; type of gear, calculus

Gear found on the rear axle of cars

Part 2 of quip

Part 4 of quip

Troubles

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

""DIGITALIZE to record digitally, e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.""

Diglyceride

""Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.""

By way of digression.

""DILAPIDATE To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; said of a building.""

In expansion getting badly paid leads to ruin

""The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; opposed to contractibility. contractibility.""

DILATATION Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

Dilatometer

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

Procrastinator's fault

Sort ladies in ground being slow

Oldster is in a muddle, not knowing which course to take (wordplay)

Pretty girl, embracing one Latvian worker, is like an amateur

Superficial approach

Dragged one's feet

Wastes time by being indecisive

Woman politely sent back whoppers after herb trifles

Dawdles

Diluteness

Dimercaprol

Capable of being diminished or lessened.

In a diminutive manner.

A molecule that consists of a combination of two nucleotides.

Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

Diplodocus

Diplomatist

Physical limitations

Disablement

End an attachment to an organisation

With beagles, a ride turned out nasty

Like some weather.

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