12-Letter Words Starting with D

Daintiness

Evel Knievel's forte

DAUGHTER a female {child=n}

Daylighting

ACTIVATING activate

Process of stopping something working

Deactivator

Deamination

Deathwatch

Debarkation

Causing weakness

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

Debouchment

Debridement

Decantation

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

Strange patina to iced topping

An action that leaves the head isolated

Fate of Anne Boleyn

Decapitator

CARBONATED Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.

Decarbonate

Slowing down

A slowing down

Reduction in the going rate

Slowing of velocity

Decelerator

Decemvirate

""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.""

Inflected form of CEREBRATED Inflected form of CEREBRATE To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

Decerebrate

Decertify

""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""

The act of deciphering.

Declamation

Assertions from Aldi: 'Tesco ran badly'

Announcements made when there are enough on the board

Declination

Decollation

Decolletage

""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.""

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

CONTROLLED control

Decorative

CORTICATED Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.

Decorticate

""A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.""

""Inflected form of CREPITATED Inflected form of CREPITATE To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.""

Decrepitate

Decrepitude

Decussation

Men hunting wild elks arrested

Defalcation

Throw someone out of a window

Throw from a window

Throw out of a window

Inflected form of FIBRILLATE Inflected form of FIBRILLAE fibrilla

""DEFIBRINATE To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.""

Defibrinate

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

Like this crossword

In a definitive manner.

DEFINITIZE

""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

Deforcement

Deformation

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Deteriorating

Worsening state of French breeding

Decline of French production

Decline of French age group

Welsh setback in case of wasting

GLACIATION Act of freezing.

Deglutition

Degradation

Uncommon tastings pre-pared, got us instead

Dehydration

Deification

The act or process of removing ions.

Lowness of spirits

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

""Inflected form of MAGNETIZED Inflected form of MAGNETIZE To communicate magnetic properties to; as, to magnetize a needle. as, to magnetize a needle.""

""MAGNETIZER One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""

Demagnetize

Boundaries of specific areas

Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.

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

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Democratize

MODULATING modulate

Extraction of a signal from its carrier

Demodulator

Demolition.

MONETIZING monetize

""DEMONIZE to make a demon of, also DEMONISE""

""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

Demystify

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

DENATURE to deprive of natural qualities

Good tendrils could excite this type of plant expert

Denervation

Denigration

Denitrifier

Denitrify

NOMINATING nominate

One, for one

He's mixed up in a religious group

Faith in money

Conferring a denomination or name.

Parts of fractions below the line

Math term.

Conclusion is to include North Carolina in the criticism

Conclusion is to include North Carolina for criticism

""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.

""Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.""

Strong public criticism

Public condemnation of awful auctioned inn

What the whistleblower is capable of is informing

Same as Denunciatory. Denunciatory.

""Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language. as, severe and denunciatory language.""

Deontology

One versed in deontology.

Deoxidation

Like blood coursing through one's veins

Deoxygenate

Go mad and get sectioned

Organised in units, go crazy

Go mad from division

Depilatory

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

POPULATING populate

Reduction in inhabitants

Loss of inhabitants

Deportation

Depositary

POSITIONAL Of or pertaining to position.

Depository

Depravation

Depravement

Deprecation

Losing value with time

Expressing disapproval about one losing value

It never goes up in financial crash

Gradual loss of value

Loss in value

""Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing.""

Depreciator

Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.

Depredation

Deprivation

""DEPUTIZE to act as a deputy, also DEPUTISE""

DERACINATE To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

Act of uprooting

I worried about body of people being uprooted

Derangement

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

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

Plural or third person singular

Dermatitis

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

""A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin.""

In a derogatory manner; disparagingly.

""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

Pictures inspired Scot to be moved

Sketches depict sins or misbehaving

Desecration

Opened to all

Desegregate

Rendered insensitive.

SENSITIZER An agent that sensitizes.

Desensitize

Desiccation

SIDERATING siderate

Longing for something

Converted into a desired, longed-for object

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

Designation

Attractiveness

The state of being desolate.

Desolating

Desperation

Despisement

Despiteful

Despitefully.

Despoilment

A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

Dejectedly, hopelessly

How Ivan the Terrible ruled