14-Letter Words Starting with D

Causing a dispersion or movement away from the center; -- used especially of power or administrative functions. Opposite of centralizing.centralizing.

""The act of changing to a decimal system; as, the decimalization of the British currency.as, the decimalization of the British currency.""

The action of changing from colonial to independent status.

COLORIZATION

Inflected form of CRIMINALIZED Inflected form of CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

Decriminalize

""FEMINIZATION The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.""

HUMANIZATION The act of humanizing.

""LOCALIZATION Act of localizing, or state of being localized.""

""Inflected form of MATERIALIZED Inflected form of MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

Dematerialize

Setting up buffer zones

Demineralizer

Inflected form of MINERALIZING Inflected form of MINERALIZE To transform into a mineral.

Post-war problem for Uncle Sam

""The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.""

""The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy. as, the demoralization of an army or navy.""

Demoralizing

Having mythical elements removed.

""MYTHOLOGIZER One who, or that which, mythologizes.""

Demythologize

""Inflected form of NATIONALIZED Inflected form of NATIONALIZE To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.""

Denationalize

""Inflected form of NATURALIZING Inflected form of NATURALIZE To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. as, custom naturalizes labor or study.""

NAZIFICATION

Inflected form of NUCLEARIZING Inflected form of NUCLEARIZE

Deodorization

Inflected form of PERSONALIZED Inflected form of PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Depersonalize

""The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.""

Inflected form of POLITICIZING Inflected form of POLITICIZE

""Inflected form of POLYMERIZING Inflected form of POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Inflected form of PRESSURIZING Inflected form of PRESSURIZE

Derealization

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

The removal of salt (especially from sea water); the act or process of desalinating.

""SPIRITUALIZE To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Able to be diagonalized; -- of a matrix.

Diazotization

Dieselization

The administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders.

""Any of three isomeric compounds, C 6 H 4 (NO 2 ) 2 , made from a mixture of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and heated benzene and used in celluloid manufacture, in dyes, and in organic synthesis.""

""DIPHTHONGIZE To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.""

""Inflected form of HARMONIZING Inflected form of HARMONIZE To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize. as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.""

Dogmatization

DOLOMITIZE DOLOMITE a mineral

Dramatization