12-Letter Words Starting with D

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ACTIVATING activate

Process of stopping something working

Deactivator

Decemvirate

Ability to settle issues

Ability to quickly settle issues

Decongest

Decorative

In a definitive manner.

Welsh setback in case of wasting

Degressive

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

Deliverance

DELUSIVE tending to delude

Denervation

Conferring a denomination or name.

Same as Denunciatory. Denunciatory.

Depravation

Depravity.

Depravement

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

Depressive

Deprivation

""DERISIVE expressing derision, also DERISORY""

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

Meritoriousness.

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

Detractive

Devaluation

Devastation

MTD envelopes (anagram)

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Advances in a process

Deverbative

""DEVIATION The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.""

""DEVIATION The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.""

DEVILISH {fiendish=adj}

VITALIZING vitalize

Devitrify

VOCALIZING vocalize

In a devotional manner; toward devotion.

Devoutness

Diapositive

Dichlorvos

By way of digression.

In a diminutive manner.

Dad navigates criminal stumbling block

Put in an unfavourable position

Unfavourable circumstance

Disapproval

Disapprover

Builder providing spa is critical

Critical of detective's program going out of range

Disbeliever

BELIEVING believe

""Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.""

Discursive

Dishevel

Vince inside Tory leader could be off-putting

Damper

Disinvest

Disjunctive

Dismissive

Dispersive

Disruptive

The act of disserving; separation.

Disseverance.

Tending or leading to dissociation.

Dissuasive

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

""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

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.""

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

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

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

""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.""

Dovishness

The act of driving.

Drivenness