12-Letter Words Starting with D

Daintiness

The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.

Damselfish

Dapperness

Daringness

DAUGHTER a female {child=n}

Daylighting

Deactivator

DEADLINESS The quality of being deadly.

Deamination

Deathwatch

Debarkation

Debauchery

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.

Debouchment

Debridement

Decantation

Decapitator

Decarbonate

Decarbonize

Decarburize

Having ten syllables

A line of verse having ten syllables.

Decelerator

Decemvirate

Decerebrate

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

Decolorizer

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

DECOROUS {proper=adj}

Decorticate

Decreasing

Decrepitate

Decrepitude

Decrescendo

Decussation

Men hunting wild elks arrested

Defalcation

Throw someone out of a window

Throw from a window

Throw out of a window

Defibrinate

Deficiency

The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.

Defloration

Defoliation

Deforcement

Deformalize

Deformation

Degeneracy

Deglamorize

Deglutition

Degradation

Degressive

Uncommon tastings pre-pared, got us instead

Dehumidify

Dehydration

Deification

Lowness of spirits

Delectation

Not 1 across (as in selected outlets)

Mayo clinic (wordplay)

Tender foreign money around second shop

Delineation

Becoming liquid

LIQUESCING liquesce

Deliverance

DELUSIVE tending to delude

Demagnetize

Boundaries of specific areas

Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.

Democratize

Demodulator

Demographer

Auto marketing strategy statistics

Data on population structures

Demography

Demolition.

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.

Proven expert said to welcome head of research

Established validity of protest by deputy head

Fiend scolded after saint made public protest

Shows Tate Modern's bizarre point

Fanatics review opening in art gallery's shows

Devil on street with nasty stare kicks up a fuss

Dealer's test drive vehicle

Car wearing dealer plates, often

Participant in a public protest

Demoralizer

Demureness

Demystify

Dendrology

Good tendrils could excite this type of plant expert

Denervation

Denigration

Denitrifier

Parts of fractions below the line

Math term.

""An instrument for determining optical or photographic density. A variety capable of measuring optical density of a sample at a number of different wavelengths, is called a spectrophotometer.spectrophotometer.""

Measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light through it and measuring the intensity of the transmitted light.

Deontology

One versed in deontology.

Deoxidation

Deoxygenate

Deoxyribose

Dependency

Depilatory

Depolarizer

Deportation

Depositary

POSITIONAL Of or pertaining to position.

Depository

Depravation

Depravity.

Depravement

Deprecation

Depreciator

Depredation

In a depressing manner.

Depressive

Inflected form of PRESSURIZE Inflected form of PRESSURE to apply force to

Deprivation

Derangement

Dereliction

Derepress

Derepress

""DERISIVE expressing derision, also DERISORY""

""A surgical procedure designed to remove skin imperfections, such as scars, by abrading the surface of the skin with fine sandpaper or wire brushes.""

Plural or third person singular

Dermatitis

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

Pictures inspired Scot to be moved

Sketches depict sins or misbehaving

Desecration

Opened to all

Desegregate

Rendered insensitive.

SENSITIZER An agent that sensitizes.

Desensitize

Meritoriousness.

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

Desexualize

Desiccation

SIDERATING siderate

Longing for something

Converted into a desired, longed-for object

""Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs. as, desiderative verbs.""

Designation

Desipramine

Attractiveness

The state of being desirous.

The state of being desolate.

Desolating

Despairing

Desperation

Despisement

Despiteful

Despitefully.

Despoilment

A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

Despondence

Dejectedly, hopelessly

How Ivan the Terrible ruled

""DESQUAMATE To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.""

""The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.""

It makes a fool disappear

Sweet to make love with one from the canteen

It's sweet to make love together, lying perhaps on the table

Inflected form of STABILIZED Inflected form of STABILIZE

Destabilize

Destination

Destitution

Able to be demolished

Easily destroyed

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

Destruction

Inflected form of SULFURIZED Inflected form of SULFURIZE

Desulfurize

DETACHED detach

DETAILED detail

Detassel

Detergency

Worsens

Determinant

Determinism

Determinist

Detestation

Detrainment

Detribalize

Detrimental

Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.