12-letter words starting with D
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter D. This section showcases how D at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with D, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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disappointed | 18 | disappointingly unsuccessful | disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions |
deliberately | 18 | in a deliberate unhurried manner | she was working deliberately |
difficulties | 21 | - | - |
distribution | 15 | (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | - |
disappearing | 18 | the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | - |
dictatorship | 20 | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | - |
disconnected | 18 | having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces |
demonstrated | 16 | having been demonstrated or verified beyond doubt | - |
dramatically | 20 | in a dramatic manner | he confessed dramatically |
disqualified | 26 | barred from competition for violation of rules | a disqualified player |
disciplinary | 20 | designed to promote discipline | the mother was stern and disciplinary |
disadvantage | 18 | put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | This rule clearly disadvantages me |
disagreement | 16 | a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | - |
dissertation | 13 | a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | - |
distributing | 16 | - | - |
dissatisfied | 17 | in a state of sulky dissatisfaction | - |
definitively | 22 | - | - |
discriminate | 17 | treat differently on the basis of sex or race | - |
disinfectant | 18 | preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | - |
disobedience | 18 | the failure to obey | - |
displacement | 19 | act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | - |
deteriorated | 14 | - | - |
domesticated | 18 | converted or adapted to domestic use | domesticated plants like maize |
disorganized | 24 | lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | a disorganized enterprise |
differential | 19 | a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves | - |
disagreeable | 16 | not agreeing with your tastes or expectations | found the task disagreeable and decided to abandon it |
debilitating | 16 | impairing the strength and vitality | - |
disintegrate | 14 | lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process |
delightfully | 23 | in a delightful manner | the farm house, though in itself a small one, is delightfully situated |
degenerative | 17 | (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function | degenerative diseases of old age |
discontinued | 16 | stopped permanently or temporarily | discontinued models |
discouraging | 17 | depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | where never is heard a discouraging word |
departmental | 17 | of or relating to a department | departmental policy |
dishonorable | 18 | deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive | - |
dissociative | 18 | tending to produce dissociation | - |
denomination | 15 | identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | - |
deliberation | 15 | planning something carefully and intentionally | it was the deliberation of his act that was insulting |
degeneration | 14 | passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | - |
disgustingly | 18 | in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | the beggar was disgustingly filthy |
disregarding | 16 | in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | - |
disheartened | 17 | made less hopeful or enthusiastic | the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest |
disinherited | 17 | deprived of your rightful heritage | - |
dictionaries | 15 | - | - |
doppelganger | 19 | a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart | - |
domestically | 20 | with respect to the internal affairs of a government | domestically, the president proposes a more moderate economic policy |
dispossessed | 16 | physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security | - |
decapitation | 17 | execution by cutting off the victim's head | - |
dispensation | 15 | an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
delicatessen | 15 | ready-to-eat food products | - |
demoralizing | 25 | destructive of morale and self-reliance | - |
disingenuous | 14 | not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time |
disreputable | 17 | lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance | - |
deliberating | 16 | - | - |
disseminated | 16 | - | - |
deregulation | 14 | the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | - |
diversionary | 19 | (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
disturbingly | 19 | in a disturbing manner | the details of the kidnaper's letter had sounded disturbingly convincing |
disinfection | 18 | treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms | - |
dissociation | 15 | a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently | - |
distillation | 13 | a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | - |
declassified | 19 | having had security classification removed | - |
discourteous | 15 | lacking social graces | - |
disciplining | 18 | - | - |
disemboweled | 21 | - | - |
disenchanted | 19 | freed from enchantment | - |
demonstrator | 15 | someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | - |
disapproving | 21 | expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
depreciation | 17 | decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use | - |
disbursement | 17 | the act of spending or disbursing money | - |
deactivating | 19 | - | - |
deactivation | 18 | the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | - |
diatomaceous | 17 | - | - |
denunciation | 15 | a public act of denouncing | - |
desensitized | 23 | - | - |
disorienting | 14 | causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings | making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting |
deceleration | 15 | a decrease in rate of change | the deceleration of the arms race |
decisiveness | 18 | the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose | a man of unusual decisiveness |
denouncement | 17 | a public act of denouncing | - |
discontented | 16 | showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing | was discontented with his position |
discomfiture | 20 | anxious embarrassment | - |
disastrously | 16 | in a disastrous manner | the real value of the trust capital may be disastrously less than when the trust began |
defibrillate | 18 | stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | The patient's heart had to be defibrillated to save his life |
disassociate | 15 | part; cease or break association with | She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president |
diversifying | 23 | - | - |
doubleheader | 19 | two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) | - |
dehumanizing | 28 | - | - |
demonstrable | 17 | capable of being demonstrated or proved | a demonstrable lack of concern for the general welfare of people |
despairingly | 19 | with desperation | `Why can't you understand?,' she asked despairingly |
depopulation | 17 | the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all) | - |
depressingly | 19 | in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree | - |
disconcerted | 18 | having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion | looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted |
dishonorably | 21 | in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | - |
disorganised | 15 | lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | - |
dehumanising | 19 | - | - |
decapitating | 18 | - | - |
decommission | 19 | withdraw from active service | The warship was decommissioned in 1998 |
deregulating | 15 | the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | - |
disbelieving | 19 | denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | - |
dogmatically | 21 | in a narrow-minded dogmatic manner | he is a dogmatically opinionated critic of Modern Art |
dodecahedron | 20 | any polyhedron having twelve plane faces | - |
dolphinarium | 20 | - | - |
demoralising | 16 | destructive of morale and self-reliance | - |
decelerating | 16 | - | - |
decentralize | 24 | make less central | After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized |
desalination | 13 | the removal of salt (especially from sea water) | - |
depressurize | 24 | decrease the pressure of | depressurize the cabin in the air plane |
disconsolate | 15 | causing dejection | a disconsolate winter landscape |
directorship | 20 | the position of a director of a business concern | - |
disorientate | 13 | cause to be lost or disoriented | - |
disinterment | 15 | the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | - |
delicateness | 15 | - | - |
degenerating | 15 | - | - |
decongestant | 16 | a drug that decreases pulmonary congestion | - |
determinated | 16 | - | - |
determinedly | 19 | with determination; in a determined manner | he clung to the past determinedly |
diabolically | 20 | as a devil; in an evil manner | his writing could be diabolically satiric |
devilishness | 19 | - | - |
depositional | 15 | - | - |
depositaries | 15 | - | - |
deoxygenated | 25 | - | - |
discriminant | 17 | - | - |
dilapidation | 16 | the process of becoming dilapidated | - |
disarranging | 15 | - | - |
ditriglyphic | 24 | - | - |
divergencies | 19 | - | - |
diversifiers | 19 | - | - |
diversionist | 16 | someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | - |
diverticular | 18 | - | - |
diverticulum | 20 | a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
divertimenti | 18 | - | - |
divergements | 19 | - | - |
divellicates | 18 | - | - |
dittographic | 21 | - | - |
diuretically | 18 | - | - |
diuturnities | 13 | - | - |
divaricately | 21 | - | - |
divaricating | 19 | - | - |
divarication | 18 | branching at a wide angle | - |
divaricators | 18 | - | - |
divellicated | 19 | - | - |
divertimento | 18 | a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | - |
divestitures | 16 | - | - |
dividendless | 18 | - | - |
divorcements | 20 | - | - |
divulgations | 17 | - | - |
divulgements | 19 | - | - |
docibilities | 17 | - | - |
docimologies | 18 | - | - |
dockisations | 19 | - | - |
dockizations | 28 | - | - |
doctrinaires | 15 | - | - |
divisiveness | 19 | - | - |
divisionists | 16 | - | - |
divinatorial | 16 | - | - |
divinenesses | 16 | - | - |
divineresses | 16 | - | - |
divinisation | 16 | - | - |
divinization | 25 | - | - |
divisibility | 21 | the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons | - |
divisionally | 19 | - | - |
divisionisms | 18 | - | - |
doctrinality | 18 | - | - |
ditransitive | 16 | - | - |
distichously | 21 | - | - |
distractible | 17 | - | - |
distractions | 15 | - | - |
distrainable | 15 | - | - |
distrainment | 15 | - | - |
distraughtly | 20 | - | - |
distressings | 14 | - | - |
distribuends | 16 | - | - |
distributary | 18 | a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
distractedly | 19 | in a distracted manner | `Come in,' he said distractedly |
distractable | 17 | - | - |
distillatory | 16 | - | - |
distilleries | 13 | - | - |
distinctions | 15 | - | - |
distinctives | 18 | - | - |
distinctness | 15 | the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | - |
distinctures | 15 | - | - |
distortional | 13 | - | - |
distributees | 15 | - | - |
distributers | 15 | - | - |
disunionists | 13 | - | - |
disutilities | 13 | - | - |
disyllabisms | 20 | - | - |
ditchdiggers | 21 | - | - |
ditheistical | 18 | - | - |
ditheletical | 18 | - | - |
ditheletisms | 18 | - | - |
dithelitisms | 18 | - | - |
disulphurets | 18 | - | - |
distributive | 18 | serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
distributors | 15 | - | - |
distringases | 14 | - | - |
distroubling | 16 | - | - |
distrustless | 13 | - | - |
disturbances | 17 | - | - |
disturbative | 18 | - | - |
dithyrambist | 23 | - | - |
dopaminergic | 20 | - | - |
doubtfulness | 18 | uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | - |
doughinesses | 17 | - | - |
doughnutlike | 21 | - | - |
doughnutting | 18 | - | - |
doulocracies | 17 | - | - |
douroucoulis | 15 | - | - |
dovetailings | 17 | - | - |
dovishnesses | 19 | - | - |
doublethinks | 22 | - | - |
doublespeaks | 21 | - | - |
dorsiflexion | 23 | the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part) | - |
dorsiventral | 16 | - | - |
dorsolateral | 13 | - | - |
dorsoventral | 16 | extending from the back to the belly | - |
dosimetrists | 15 | - | - |
doublenesses | 15 | - | - |
downdraughts | 21 | - | - |
downlighters | 20 | - | - |
downloadable | 19 | - | - |
draconianism | 17 | - | - |
draconically | 20 | - | - |
dracontiases | 15 | - | - |
dracontiasis | 15 | - | - |
draftinesses | 16 | - | - |
draftsperson | 18 | a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | - |
dragonnading | 16 | - | - |
drabbinesses | 17 | - | - |
doxycyclines | 30 | - | - |
downshifters | 22 | - | - |
downshifting | 23 | - | - |
downstairses | 16 | - | - |
downtrending | 18 | - | - |
downwardness | 20 | - | - |
doxographers | 26 | - | - |
doxographies | 26 | - | - |
doxorubicins | 24 | - | - |
dramaticisms | 19 | - | - |
doorstepping | 18 | - | - |
doctrinarian | 15 | - | - |
doggednesses | 16 | - | - |
dolichuruses | 18 | - | - |
dollarfishes | 19 | - | - |
dollarocracy | 20 | - | - |
dolomitising | 16 | - | - |
dolomitizing | 25 | - | - |
doloriferous | 16 | - | - |
dogberryisms | 21 | - | - |
dodecastyles | 19 | - | - |
doctrinarism | 17 | - | - |
documentable | 19 | - | - |
dodecagynian | 20 | - | - |
dodecagynous | 20 | - | - |
dodecahedral | 20 | - | - |
dodecandrous | 17 | - | - |
dodecaphonic | 23 | - | - |
dolorousness | 13 | - | - |
domesticable | 19 | - | - |
dominatingly | 19 | - | - |
dominatrices | 17 | - | - |
dominatrixes | 22 | - | - |
donatistical | 15 | - | - |
doomwatchers | 23 | - | - |
doomwatching | 24 | - | - |
doorknockers | 23 | - | - |
doorknocking | 24 | - | - |
domiciliates | 17 | - | - |
domiciliated | 18 | - | - |
domesticates | 17 | - | - |
domesticator | 17 | - | - |
domesticised | 18 | - | - |
domesticises | 17 | - | - |
domesticized | 27 | - | - |
domesticizes | 26 | - | - |
doorsteppers | 17 | - | - |
disthronizes | 25 | - | - |
dismemberers | 19 | - | - |
disorganises | 14 | - | - |
disorganizer | 23 | - | - |
disorganizes | 23 | - | - |
dispaupering | 18 | - | - |
dispauperise | 17 | - | - |
disorganiser | 14 | - | - |
dismembering | 20 | - | - |
dismissively | 21 | - | - |
dismountable | 17 | - | - |
dismutations | 15 | - | - |
disoperation | 15 | - | - |
disorderedly | 18 | - | - |
disorderlies | 14 | - | - |
dispauperize | 26 | - | - |
dispensaries | 15 | - | - |
displeasedly | 19 | - | - |
displeasured | 16 | - | - |
displeasures | 15 | - | - |
displenished | 19 | - | - |
displenishes | 18 | - | - |
disportments | 17 | - | - |
dispositions | 15 | - | - |
displeasance | 17 | - | - |
dispensative | 18 | - | - |
dispensators | 15 | - | - |
dispensatory | 18 | - | - |
dispersively | 21 | - | - |
dispiritedly | 19 | in a dispirited manner without hope | the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances |
dispiritment | 17 | - | - |
dispiteously | 18 | - | - |
displaceable | 19 | - | - |
dispossesses | 15 | - | - |
dismayedness | 19 | - | - |
dishonourers | 16 | - | - |
disinfecting | 19 | - | - |
disinfectors | 18 | - | - |
disinfestant | 16 | - | - |
disinfesting | 17 | - | - |
disinflation | 16 | a reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of payments | - |
disinforming | 19 | - | - |
disingenuity | 17 | - | - |
disinclosing | 16 | - | - |
dishonouring | 17 | - | - |
dishumouring | 19 | - | - |
disillusions | 13 | - | - |
disimagining | 17 | - | - |
disimprisons | 17 | - | - |
disimproving | 21 | - | - |
disincentive | 18 | a negative motivational influence | - |
disinclining | 16 | - | - |
disinherison | 16 | - | - |
disjunctives | 25 | - | - |
disjunctures | 22 | - | - |
dislocatedly | 19 | - | - |
dislocations | 15 | - | - |
dislodgement | 17 | forced removal from a position of advantage | - |
dislodgments | 17 | - | - |
disloyalties | 16 | - | - |
dismalnesses | 15 | - | - |
disjunctions | 22 | - | - |
disjointedly | 24 | in a disjointed manner | `We're not married, not really married,' she said, and slowly, reluctantly, disjointedly it came out |
disinhibited | 19 | - | - |
disinterests | 13 | - | - |
disinterring | 14 | - | - |
disintricate | 15 | - | - |
disinvesting | 17 | - | - |
disinvolving | 20 | - | - |
dismastments | 17 | - | - |
dissentience | 15 | - | - |
dissheathing | 20 | - | - |
disshivering | 20 | - | - |
dissiliences | 15 | - | - |
dissimilarly | 18 | - | - |
dissimilated | 16 | - | - |
dissimilates | 15 | - | - |
dissimulated | 16 | - | - |
dissimulates | 15 | - | - |
disseverment | 18 | - | - |
disseverance | 18 | - | - |
dissentiency | 18 | - | - |
dissentients | 13 | - | - |
dissentingly | 17 | - | - |
dissepiments | 17 | - | - |
dissertating | 14 | - | - |
dissertative | 16 | - | - |
dissertators | 13 | - | - |
dissimulator | 15 | a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | - |
dissipatedly | 19 | - | - |
dissipations | 15 | - | - |
dissundering | 15 | - | - |
dissyllables | 18 | - | - |
dissymmetric | 22 | - | - |
distanceless | 15 | - | - |
distemperate | 17 | - | - |
distempering | 18 | - | - |
disthronised | 17 | - | - |
disthronises | 16 | - | - |
dissuasories | 13 | - | - |
dissuasively | 19 | - | - |
dissocialise | 15 | - | - |
dissociality | 18 | - | - |
dissocialize | 24 | - | - |
dissociating | 16 | - | - |
dissolutions | 13 | - | - |
dissonancies | 15 | - | - |
disthronized | 26 | - | - |
dissenterism | 15 | - | - |
dispossessor | 15 | - | - |
disqualifier | 25 | - | - |
disqualifies | 25 | - | - |
disquietedly | 26 | - | - |
disquietened | 23 | - | - |
disquietness | 22 | - | - |
disquietudes | 23 | - | - |
disquisition | 22 | an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion | - |
disputatious | 15 | inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | a disputatious lawyer |
disputations | 15 | - | - |
disprisoning | 16 | - | - |
disprivacied | 21 | - | - |
disprivilege | 19 | - | - |
disprofessed | 19 | - | - |
disprofesses | 18 | - | - |
dispropriate | 17 | - | - |
disproviding | 20 | - | - |
dispurveying | 22 | - | - |
disquisitive | 25 | - | - |
disquisitory | 25 | - | - |
disregarders | 15 | - | - |
dissatisfies | 16 | - | - |
dissemblance | 19 | - | - |
dissemblings | 18 | - | - |
disseminates | 15 | - | - |
disseminator | 15 | someone who spreads the news | - |
disseminules | 15 | - | - |
disruptively | 21 | in a disruptive manner | - |
disrobements | 17 | - | - |
disregardful | 18 | - | - |
disrelations | 13 | - | - |
disrelishing | 17 | - | - |
disremembers | 19 | - | - |
disreputably | 20 | in a disreputable manner | - |
disrespected | 18 | - | - |
dissenterish | 16 | - | - |
dunniewassal | 16 | - | - |
dwarfishness | 22 | smallness of stature | - |
dwindlements | 19 | - | - |
dyeabilities | 18 | - | - |
dynamogenies | 19 | - | - |
dynamographs | 24 | - | - |
dynamometers | 20 | - | - |
dynamometric | 22 | - | - |
dynastically | 21 | - | - |
duraluminium | 17 | - | - |
durabilities | 15 | - | - |
duodecennial | 16 | - | - |
duodecillion | 16 | - | - |
duodecimally | 21 | - | - |
duodenectomy | 21 | - | - |
duodenitises | 14 | - | - |
dupabilities | 17 | - | - |
duplications | 17 | - | - |
duplicatures | 17 | - | - |
dyotheletism | 21 | - | - |
dysaesthesia | 19 | - | - |
dysaesthetic | 21 | - | - |
dyscalculias | 20 | - | - |
dysfunctions | 21 | - | - |
dysmenorrhea | 21 | painful menstruation | - |
dyspareunias | 18 | - | - |
dysphemistic | 25 | of or the nature of dysphemism | `kick the bucket' is a dysphemistic term for `die' |
dysrhythmias | 27 | - | - |
dyssynergias | 20 | - | - |
dysteleology | 20 | - | - |
duniewassals | 16 | - | - |
dramatisable | 17 | - | - |
dreamfulness | 18 | - | - |
dreaminesses | 15 | - | - |
drearinesses | 13 | - | - |
dregginesses | 15 | - | - |
dressinesses | 13 | - | - |
dressmakings | 20 | - | - |
drillability | 18 | - | - |
drillmasters | 15 | - | - |
dreadnoughts | 18 | - | - |
dreadnaughts | 18 | - | - |
dramatizable | 26 | - | - |
dramaturgies | 16 | - | - |
dramaturgist | 16 | - | - |
drapeability | 20 | - | - |
draughtboard | 20 | - | - |
draughtiness | 17 | - | - |
drawlingness | 17 | - | - |
dreadfulness | 17 | a quality of extreme unpleasantness | - |
drinkability | 22 | - | - |
driveability | 21 | - | - |
drivennesses | 16 | - | - |
dubitatively | 21 | - | - |
dulcetnesses | 15 | - | - |
dulciloquies | 24 | - | - |
dumbfounders | 21 | - | - |
dumbfounding | 22 | bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | - |
dumbstricken | 23 | as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | - |
dumfoundered | 20 | - | - |
dumortierite | 15 | - | - |
drysalteries | 16 | - | - |
drumbledrane | 18 | - | - |
drivethrough | 23 | - | - |
dromophobias | 22 | - | - |
droopinesses | 15 | - | - |
droseraceous | 15 | - | - |
drossinesses | 13 | - | - |
droughtiness | 17 | - | - |
drowsinesses | 16 | - | - |
drumbeatings | 18 | - | - |
dunderheaded | 19 | - | - |
daffodillies | 20 | - | - |
daggerboards | 18 | - | - |
daintinesses | 13 | - | - |
damasceening | 18 | - | - |
damascenings | 18 | - | - |
damaskeening | 20 | - | - |
damasquining | 25 | - | - |
damnableness | 17 | - | - |