12-Letter Words Starting with D

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

Disposition

Deprived of land/property

Bereft by Berryman

Deprived of property or land

Dispossess

One who dispossesses.

Debates ain't so stupid if appropriately organised

Sidney comes back to position nations to release new arguments

""Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. as, a disputatious person or temper.""

Removed from competition

Ruled inadmissible

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

Disqualify

Disquietude

""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.""

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.

In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.

DISSIMILATE To render dissimilar.

Dissimilate

SIMULATED simulate

Dissimulate

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Dissipated

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

Tending or leading to dissociation.

Dissolution

Dissuasive

Dissyllable

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

Immoderate.

Distemper

Process producing spirits

Process for producing spirits

Whisky-making process

Laphroaig, Glenfiddich and Macallan

Places with plenty of alcohol

They raise the spirits

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.""

""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.

Distraction

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

Distraught

Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.

Distributee

Handing out

Most of the issue is charged and leads to handouts

Apportionment

Give out to missing Egyptian leader on charge of supplying demand

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

Distributor

Gambles crossing street of city in riots

Riots

Disturbing

Disunionist

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.""

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.""

Divestiture

DIVIDEND a quantity to be divided

The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation.

Divisionism

Divisionist

State causing dissension

Divorcement

Doctrinaire

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

DOMINATE to {control=v}

""Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral. dorsiventral.""

Of or involving both the back and the side.

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

Doubleness

Doublespeak

Doublethink

Lose funds but shift suspicion

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

Douroucouli

Dovishness

Downshift

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

Doxorubicin

Doxycycline

Draftiness

A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.

Dramaturgy

The quality of being dreadful.

Turreted battleships

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

Dreaminess

Dreariness

Dressiness

Dressmaking

Dentists (wordplay)

Dentists?

Drivenness

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

Drowsiness

Drumbeating

Drysaltery

DUMBFOUNDER dumbfound

Duplication

Durability

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

Dyeability

Dynamometer

Dynastical

Dysfunction

Difficult and painful menstruation.

Adjective (-ic)

Dysrhythmia