15-Letter Words Starting with D

""ACIDIFICATION The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.""

The removal of calcareous matter.

Inflected form of CARBOXYLATING Inflected form of CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

CARBOXYLATION

""The act, process, or result of decarburizing.""

CASUALIZATION

""DECEITFULNESS The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual. as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.""

DECEPTIVENESS The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.

CERTIFICATION The act of certifying.

Dechlorination

DECIDUOUSNESS The quality or state of being deciduous.

Decimalization

Decolonization

Decolorization

Decommission

Decompensation

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) to break down (organic matter) or (of organic matter) to be broken down physically and chemically by bacterial or fungal action; rot

""Inflected form of CONCENTRATING Inflected form of CONCENTRATE To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention. as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention.""

Act of deconcentrating.

Deconsecration

Inflected form of CONSTRUCTIONS Inflected form of CONSTRUCTION The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

Cleansing, in a way

Activity for the E.P.A.

Removal of harmful substances

One goal of the E.P.A.

The removal of dangerous substances

Decontaminator

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

Deductibility

DEFECTIVENESS defective

Delectability

""DELICIOUSNESS The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast. as, the deliciousness of a repast.""

Delocalization

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Demographical

""MYSTIFICATION The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.""

Denazification

""The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.""

Science of fingerprints

Study of fingerprints no repeated letters (nonverbal)

SACRALIZATION

Descriptive

Dust-bowl action

The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.

Destructionist

Vandal's trait

Malevolent nature

Ruinous quality

Destructivity

Detachability

Detectability

Detoxification

""The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products. devitrification products.""

The study of dialects.

Dialectologist

DIASTROPHIC

English word

Dichloroethane

DICHOTOMIZE To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

Dichotomous

Imperious quality

Diffractometer

Adjective (-ic)

Disaccharidase

Inflected form of ARTICULATING Inflected form of ARTICULATE Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

ARTICULATION A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

Withdrawals

They demand exact conformity to rules

Are they responsible for enforcement orders (wordplay)

Martinets

Rotten bad time? Could sob - so upset!

All there, but not altogether

All shook up

Throws into confusion

Upsets in party - then see a mob bustle about

Confuses though most basic, double confused

So as to ruffle some feathers

Girl alone embracing musical performance in an embarrassing way

Disconcertment

Disconformity

Disconsolation

Unhappy states

Discontinuance

Bad-mouth longevity (wordplay)

Interruption, as of a subscription

Breach

Discontinuity

With interruptions.

Took a dim view of

Wicked conduct, as in Eden, not approved of

Shows disapproval of

Abashes

Discouragement

Discrimination

ENCHANTINGLY enchanting

Disenchantment

Deprived of fast food chains (wordplay)

Deprived of a right

Not able to make one's mark at the election

Disenfranchise

Disgraceful

Disinclination

Acts against heirs

""INTOXICATING Producing intoxication; as, intoxicating liquors. as, intoxicating liquors.""

""INTOXICATION A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.""

Scruples I deftly dealt with, showing no consideration for another

Rap a Rolling Stones classic (wordplay)

Anger over Sidney getting compensation

Discontent; uneasiness

Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing.

State of being distinctive.

(tr) (often passive) to draw the attention of (a person) away from something

DITHIOCARBAMATE

""DITHYRAMBIC Pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous.""

One objective of fund management

Business practice stressing variety

Portfolio manager's quest

DOCUMENTATION

DOLICHOCEPHAL

Dramaturgical

DYSLOGISTIC Unfavorable; not commendatory; opposed to eulogistic. eulogistic.