15-Letter Words Starting with D

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DANGEROUSNESS dangerous

Dastardliness

DAUNTLESSNESS dauntless

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

DEATHLESSNESS deathless

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

""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.

""DIFFERENTIATE To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize.""

DEFECTIVENESS defective

Defeminization

Defenestration

Military foible

Extreme exposure

Defensibility

DEFENSIVENESS defensive

Defibrillation

GLAMORIZATION

Dehumanization

Inflected form of HYDROGENATING Inflected form of HYDROGENATE To hydrogenize.

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

""INDUSTRIALIZE To make industrial; to develop so that most of the working population is engaged in non-agricultural labor; to develop economically; -- of nations or geographical areas; as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations.as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations.""

Delegitimation

Deleterious

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

DELIGHTEDNESS delighted

DELIRIOUSNESS delirious

Delocalization

Magazine diet not working, an unattractive process (wordplay)

DEMANDINGNESS demanding

""Inflected form of MATERIALIZING 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.""

Demobilization

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Demonetization

The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.

""DEMONSTRATION The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.""

With exuberance

Without reticence

Demoralization

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

""Inflected form of MYTHOLOGIZING Inflected form of MYTHOLOGIZE To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.""

""Inflected form of NATIONALIZING 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.""

Denazification

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

Create a bureaucracy

Divide into branches of instruction

Dependability

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

Depigmentation

Depolarization

Derivatization

SACRALIZATION

Desalinization

Descriptive

Loss of feeling

Dust-bowl action

SEXUALIZATION

DESIRABLENESS The quality of being desirable.

DESPERATENESS Desperation; virulence.

Tense about wild fun in baths with little liquid

As much as can be eaten in one go during the final course of a meal (wordplay)

Rene's old fusspot, pouring out measure of liquid in kitchen

STABILIZATION

DESTITUTENESS Destitution.

Destructionist

Vandal's trait

Malevolent nature

Ruinous quality

DESULFURIZE SULFURIZE SULFUR a non metallic element

Desultoriness

Rolling die near men tests predictability

Detoxification

The act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living.

Deuteranomaly

Adjective (-ous)

Developmental

""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.""

DEXTEROUSNESS The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.

DIAGONALIZE to transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix.

English word

Dichloroethane

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

Dichotomous

Imperious quality

Differentiate

Distinction between multiple things

Mathematical process

Something A-level maths student does to achieve distinction

DIFFERENTNESS different

DIFFUSIVENESS The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.

Digitalization

Dimenhydrinate

Dinitrobenzene

Dinoflagellate

English word

Unfavorable

Unfavourable

Disaffiliation

Disaggregation

Disambiguation

DISAPPOINTING disappoint

Diana's schedule leads to setbacks

They don't meet expectations

Frustrations

Disapprobation

Disarrangement

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

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

Landings.

Disembarrass

Disembowelment

ENCHANTINGLY enchanting

Disenchantment

Deprived of fast food chains (wordplay)

Deprived of a right

Not able to make one's mark at the election

Disenfranchise

Removal of twists and knots

Unravelling; process of setting free

Extrication

Withdrawing support, as from a church

Disfurnishment

Disgraceful

Disgruntlement

HEARTENINGLY heartening

Disheartenment

Learning that there's no Santa Claus

State of disenchantment

Result of shattered ideals

Disinclination

Disinfestation

""Inflected form of INFLATIONARY Inflected form of INFLATION The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.""

Disinformation

Acts against heirs

Acts of deteriorating

In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.

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

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

Lack of systematic arrangement.

Confusion

Disorientation

DISPARATENESS disparate

Calmly and coolly.

With calm

Unfeeling

I'd poor part - lion's share when 29

Lacking size relationship

Disproportion

Rap a Rolling Stones classic (wordplay)

Anger over Sidney getting compensation

Discontent; uneasiness

DISSOLUTENESS State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation.

The quality of being offensive

State of being distinctive.

""Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub.""

So as to be distinguished.

Distressful

Distrustful

One objective of fund management

Business practice stressing variety

Portfolio manager's quest

Divertissement

DOCUMENTATION

Dolomitization

Domineering

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

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

DOUBTLESSNESS doubtless

Feeling of low spirits and sadness

Blue state

Dejection

DOWNRIGHTNESS downright

DREAMLESSNESS dreamless