12-Letter Words Starting with D

Debates ain't so stupid if appropriately organised

Sidney comes back to position nations to release new arguments

""A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation.""

Ignoring dangers, rigid surprisingly

Disrelation

Disrelish

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

The act of disserving; separation.

Disseverance.

Dissipation

""DISSOCIATE To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.""

Action of separating

Dissolution

Distemper

Process producing spirits

Process for producing spirits

Whisky-making process

Distinction

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

""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.""

Distraction

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

Handing out

Most of the issue is charged and leads to handouts

Apportionment

Give out to missing Egyptian leader on charge of supplying demand

Gambles crossing street of city in riots

Riots

Disturbing

Disunionist

""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.""

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

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

Divergency

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.""

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

DIVIDEND a quantity to be divided

Divisionism

Divisionist

State causing dissension

Divorcement

Doctrinaire

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

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

DOLOMITIZE

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.""

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

Doubleness

Doublethink

Lose funds but shift suspicion

Suspicion this is open to debate on four points, one of them repeated

Adjective meaning resembling

Dovishness

Is not up to getting delivery from talented type that's accessible from the net

Downshift

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

Doxorubicin

Doxycycline

Draftiness

A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.

The quality of being dreadful.

Turreted battleships

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

Dreaminess

Dreariness

Dressiness

Dressmaking

Suitable or fit for drinking; potable: drinkable water.

Drivenness

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

Drowsiness

Drumbeating

DUMBFOUNDER dumbfound

Dumbfound

Thickheaded; stupid.

The cardinal number equal to 10 39 .

Duplication

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

Dynamometer

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

Dynastical

Dysfunction

Difficult and painful menstruation.