13-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| demonstration | 16 | proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | - |
| disappearance | 20 | gradually ceasing to be visible | - |
| determination | 16 | the act of making up your mind about something | - |
| distinguished | 19 | used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | his distinguished bearing |
| disappointing | 19 | not up to expectations | a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising |
| disrespectful | 21 | neither feeling nor showing respect | - |
| documentation | 18 | confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | - |
| demonstrating | 17 | - | - |
| dysfunctional | 22 | (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose | dysfunctional behavior |
| differentiate | 20 | evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | - |
| deteriorating | 15 | - | - |
| deterioration | 14 | process of changing to an inferior state | - |
| disillusioned | 15 | freed from illusion | - |
| decomposition | 20 | in a decomposed state | - |
| defibrillator | 19 | an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation | - |
| disintegrated | 16 | - | - |
| discriminated | 19 | - | - |
| dermatologist | 17 | a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin | - |
| developmental | 21 | of or relating to or constituting development | developmental psychology |
| disadvantaged | 20 | marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences | - |
| disconcerting | 19 | causing an emotional disturbance | his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly |
| discoloration | 16 | a soiled or discolored appearance | - |
| dishonourable | 19 | lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor | - |
| dismemberment | 22 | the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces | - |
| decaffeinated | 23 | - | - |
| decompression | 20 | relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | - |
| discretionary | 19 | having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | The commission has discretionary power to award extra funds |
| disinterested | 15 | unaffected by self-interest | - |
| demonstrative | 19 | serving to demonstrate | - |
| dissimilarity | 19 | the quality of being dissimilar | - |
| deforestation | 17 | the removal of trees | - |
| directionless | 16 | aimlessly drifting | - |
| diagnostician | 17 | a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | - |
| domestication | 18 | the attribute of having been domesticated | - |
| dispassionate | 16 | unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice | a journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact |
| dependability | 22 | the quality of being dependable or reliable | - |
| disseminating | 17 | - | - |
| disconnection | 18 | state of being disconnected | - |
| discontinuing | 17 | - | - |
| disembowelled | 22 | - | - |
| dimensionally | 19 | - | - |
| dramatization | 25 | conversion into dramatic form | the play was a dramatization of a short story |
| distinctively | 22 | in an identifiably distinctive manner | the distinctively conservative district of the county |
| demilitarized | 26 | - | - |
| disassociated | 17 | - | - |
| disheartening | 18 | destructive of morale and self-reliance | - |
| disengagement | 18 | the act of releasing from an attachment or connection | - |
| disfigurement | 20 | an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back |
| dissemination | 16 | the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | - |
| discontinuity | 19 | lack of connection or continuity | - |
| domesticating | 19 | - | - |
| dispositional | 16 | - | - |
| disgracefully | 23 | in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | his grades were disgracefully low |
| diametrically | 21 | as from opposite ends of a diameter | when two honest witnesses give accounts of the same event that differ diametrically, how can anyone prove that the evidence you gave was deliberately false? |
| deterministic | 18 | an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
| disproportion | 18 | lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | - |
| dispossession | 16 | freeing from evil spirits | - |
| disqualifying | 30 | depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | - |
| decentralized | 26 | withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | a decentralized school administration |
| daguerreotype | 20 | a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
| desegregation | 16 | the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | - |
| dematerialize | 25 | become immaterial; disappear | - |
| deliciousness | 16 | extreme appetizingness | - |
| dexamethasone | 26 | a corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat allergies or inflammation | - |
| draftsmanship | 24 | the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | - |
| deceitfulness | 19 | the quality of being crafty | - |
| dactylography | 28 | - | - |
| defibrillated | 20 | - | - |
| decompressing | 21 | relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | - |
| decontaminate | 18 | rid of contamination | The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city |
| democratizing | 28 | - | - |
| dishonourably | 22 | in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | - |
| dockwallopers | 25 | - | - |
| draughtproofs | 23 | - | - |
| droolworthier | 20 | - | - |
| disworshipped | 25 | - | - |
| disworshiping | 23 | - | - |
| decasualising | 17 | - | - |
| decasualizing | 26 | - | - |
| declinatories | 16 | - | - |
| decommunising | 21 | - | - |
| decommunizing | 30 | - | - |
| decumulations | 18 | - | - |
| deduplicating | 20 | - | - |
| deduplication | 19 | - | - |
| decartelizing | 26 | - | - |
| decartelising | 17 | - | - |
| darmstadtiums | 19 | - | - |
| dataveillance | 19 | - | - |
| daughterboard | 21 | - | - |
| daughterliest | 18 | - | - |
| deindexations | 22 | - | - |
| deleveragings | 19 | - | - |
| discorporated | 19 | - | - |
| discorporates | 18 | - | - |
| disemvowelled | 23 | - | - |
| disenrollings | 15 | - | - |
| disfunctional | 19 | - | - |
| disgavellings | 19 | - | - |
| displeasanted | 17 | - | - |
| dissyllabisms | 21 | - | - |
| diezeugmenons | 26 | - | - |
| diaphragmitis | 22 | - | - |
| demotivations | 19 | - | - |
| deoppilatives | 21 | - | - |
| dermaplanings | 19 | - | - |
| destructivism | 21 | - | - |
| desulfurating | 18 | - | - |
| desulfuration | 17 | - | - |
| desulfurisers | 17 | - | - |
| desulfurizers | 26 | - | - |
| deescalations | 16 | - | - |
| deemphasizing | 31 | - | - |
| deaccessioned | 19 | - | - |
| defamiliarize | 28 | - | - |
| defragmenters | 20 | - | - |
| degenderizing | 26 | - | - |
| delegitimated | 18 | - | - |
| delegitimates | 17 | - | - |
| demethylating | 23 | - | - |
| demethylation | 22 | - | - |
| desanctifying | 23 | - | - |
| destigmatized | 27 | - | - |
| destigmatizes | 26 | - | - |
| disinhibitors | 19 | - | - |
| draughtboards | 21 | - | - |
| druckennesses | 20 | - | - |
| drumbledranes | 19 | - | - |
| drunkennesses | 18 | - | - |
| dryopithecine | 24 | considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans | - |
| dualistically | 19 | - | - |
| dubiousnesses | 16 | - | - |
| ductilenesses | 16 | - | - |
| dulcification | 21 | - | - |
| drouthinesses | 17 | - | - |
| dronkverdriet | 22 | - | - |
| draughtswoman | 23 | - | - |
| draughtswomen | 23 | - | - |
| dreadlessness | 15 | - | - |
| dreamlessness | 16 | - | - |
| drinkableness | 20 | - | - |
| drivabilities | 19 | - | - |
| drivethroughs | 24 | - | - |
| dronishnesses | 17 | - | - |
| dumbfoundered | 23 | - | - |
| dumfoundering | 21 | - | - |
| dumortierites | 16 | - | - |
| dutiabilities | 16 | - | - |
| dutifulnesses | 17 | - | - |
| dynamogeneses | 20 | - | - |
| dynamogenesis | 20 | - | - |
| dynamometries | 21 | - | - |
| dyotheletical | 22 | - | - |
| dyotheletisms | 22 | - | - |
| dyothelitical | 22 | - | - |
| duteousnesses | 14 | - | - |
| duskishnesses | 21 | - | - |
| dumpishnesses | 21 | - | - |
| dunderheadism | 21 | - | - |
| dunniewassals | 17 | - | - |
| duodecillions | 17 | - | - |
| duplicability | 23 | the quality of being reproducible | - |
| duplicitously | 21 | - | - |
| durablenesses | 16 | - | - |
| duraluminiums | 18 | - | - |
| dysaesthesias | 20 | - | - |
| drapabilities | 18 | - | - |
| dollarization | 23 | - | - |
| domesticities | 18 | - | - |
| domesticizing | 28 | - | - |
| domiciliating | 19 | - | - |
| domiciliation | 18 | temporary living quarters | - |
| domineeringly | 20 | in a domineering manner | his wife behaved domineeringly |
| donnishnesses | 17 | - | - |
| doomwatchings | 25 | - | - |
| doorsteppings | 19 | - | - |
| domesticising | 19 | - | - |
| domesticators | 18 | - | - |
| dollishnesses | 17 | - | - |
| dolorimetries | 16 | - | - |
| dolphinariums | 21 | - | - |
| dolphinfishes | 25 | - | - |
| doltishnesses | 17 | - | - |
| domesticative | 21 | - | - |
| doppelgangers | 20 | - | - |
| dorsiflexions | 24 | - | - |
| dosimetrician | 18 | - | - |
| draconianisms | 18 | - | - |
| dracunculuses | 18 | - | - |
| draftspersons | 19 | - | - |
| draggletailed | 17 | - | - |
| dramatisation | 16 | conversion into dramatic form | - |
| dramaturgical | 19 | relating to the technical aspects of drama | - |
| doxologically | 27 | - | - |
| downshiftings | 24 | - | - |
| doubleheaders | 20 | - | - |
| doublespeaker | 22 | - | - |
| doubtlessness | 16 | - | - |
| doughnuttings | 19 | - | - |
| doughtinesses | 18 | - | - |
| doveishnesses | 20 | - | - |
| downheartedly | 24 | - | - |
| downrightness | 21 | the quality of being direct and straightforward | - |
| dramaturgists | 17 | - | - |
| dysmenorrheal | 22 | - | - |
| dysmenorrheas | 22 | - | - |
| dysmenorrheic | 24 | - | - |
| dysmenorrhoea | 22 | - | - |
| dyspeptically | 26 | - | - |
| dollarisation | 14 | - | - |
| dispropertied | 19 | - | - |
| disproperties | 18 | - | - |
| dispropriated | 19 | - | - |
| dispropriates | 18 | - | - |
| dispurveyance | 24 | - | - |
| disputability | 21 | - | - |
| disputatively | 22 | - | - |
| disprofessing | 20 | - | - |
| disprivileges | 20 | - | - |
| dispositioned | 17 | - | - |
| dispositively | 22 | - | - |
| dispossessing | 17 | - | - |
| dispossessors | 16 | - | - |
| dispossessory | 19 | - | - |
| dispraisingly | 20 | - | - |
| disprivileged | 21 | - | - |
| disqualifiers | 26 | - | - |
| disquantitied | 24 | - | - |
| dissemblingly | 22 | - | - |
| disseminative | 19 | spreading by diffusion | - |
| disseminators | 16 | - | - |
| dissenterisms | 16 | - | - |
| dissentiences | 16 | - | - |
| dissentiently | 17 | - | - |
| dissemblances | 20 | - | - |
| dissatisfying | 21 | - | - |
| disquantities | 23 | - | - |
| disquietening | 24 | - | - |
| disquietingly | 27 | in a disquieting manner | the disquietingly close sounds of gunfire |
| disquisitions | 23 | - | - |
| disremembered | 21 | - | - |
| disreputation | 16 | - | - |
| disrespecting | 19 | - | - |
| dissepimental | 18 | - | - |
| disposability | 21 | - | - |
| disinvestment | 19 | the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation | - |
| disobligation | 17 | - | - |
| disobligatory | 20 | - | - |
| disobligement | 19 | - | - |
| disobligingly | 21 | - | - |
| disoperations | 16 | - | - |
| disordinately | 18 | - | - |
| disorganisers | 15 | - | - |
| disorganising | 16 | - | - |
| disobediently | 20 | in a disobedient manner | he went ahead disobediently and did what his supervisor had warned him not to do |
| disobediences | 19 | - | - |
| disinvigorate | 18 | - | - |
| disjunctively | 29 | - | - |
| dislikenesses | 18 | - | - |
| dislodgements | 18 | - | - |
| dismantlement | 18 | the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | - |
| disnaturalise | 14 | - | - |
| disnaturalize | 23 | - | - |
| disorganizers | 24 | - | - |
| disorganizing | 25 | - | - |
| disorientated | 15 | - | - |
| dispersedness | 17 | - | - |
| dispiritingly | 20 | - | - |
| dispiritments | 18 | - | - |
| displacements | 20 | - | - |
| displantation | 16 | - | - |
| displeasances | 18 | - | - |
| displeasingly | 20 | in a displeasing manner | he made displeasingly cutting remarks about his friends |
| displeasuring | 17 | - | - |
| dispensations | 16 | - | - |
| dispauperizes | 27 | - | - |
| disorientates | 14 | - | - |
| disparagement | 19 | a communication that belittles somebody or something | - |
| disparagingly | 21 | in a disparaging manner | these mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story' |
| disparateness | 16 | utter dissimilarity | - |
| dispauperised | 19 | - | - |
| dispauperises | 18 | - | - |
| dispauperized | 28 | - | - |
| displenishing | 20 | - | - |
| disyllabified | 23 | - | - |
| diverticulate | 19 | - | - |
| divertimentos | 19 | - | - |
| divertisement | 19 | - | - |
| dividednesses | 19 | - | - |
| divinisations | 17 | - | - |
| divinizations | 26 | - | - |
| divisibleness | 19 | - | - |
| dociblenesses | 18 | - | - |
| divertibility | 22 | - | - |
| diversionists | 17 | - | - |
| disyllabifies | 22 | - | - |
| dithyrambists | 24 | - | - |
| ditransitives | 17 | - | - |
| dittographies | 20 | - | - |
| divarications | 19 | - | - |
| divellicating | 20 | - | - |
| diversenesses | 17 | - | - |
| diversifiable | 22 | - | - |
| doctrinairism | 18 | - | - |
| doctrinarians | 16 | - | - |
| doctrinarisms | 18 | - | - |
| dodecaphonism | 24 | - | - |
| dodecaphonist | 22 | - | - |
| doggishnesses | 19 | - | - |
| dogmatisation | 17 | - | - |
| dogmatization | 26 | - | - |
| dogmatologies | 18 | - | - |
| dolefulnesses | 17 | - | - |
| dolichocephal | 26 | - | - |
| dodecaphonies | 22 | - | - |
| dodecahedrons | 21 | - | - |
| documentalist | 18 | - | - |
| documentarian | 18 | - | - |
| documentaries | 18 | - | - |
| documentarily | 21 | - | - |
| documentarise | 18 | - | - |
| documentarist | 18 | - | - |
| documentarize | 27 | - | - |
| dolichosaurus | 19 | - | - |
| disubstituted | 17 | - | - |
| dissertations | 14 | - | - |
| dissimulation | 16 | the act of deceiving | - |
| dissimulative | 19 | concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive | dissimulative arts |
| dissimulators | 16 | - | - |
| dissocialised | 17 | - | - |
| dissocialises | 16 | - | - |
| dissocialized | 26 | - | - |
| dissocializes | 25 | - | - |
| dissociations | 16 | - | - |
| dissimulating | 17 | - | - |
| dissimilitude | 17 | dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness | - |
| disseverances | 19 | - | - |
| disseveration | 17 | - | - |
| disseverments | 19 | - | - |
| dissimilating | 17 | - | - |
| dissimilation | 16 | breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | - |
| dissimilative | 19 | - | - |
| dissimilatory | 19 | - | - |
| dissolubility | 19 | the property of being dissoluble | he measure the dissolubility of sugar in water |
| dissoluteness | 14 | indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures | - |
| dissymmetries | 21 | - | - |
| distractingly | 20 | - | - |
| distractively | 22 | - | - |
| distrainments | 16 | - | - |
| distressfully | 20 | with distress | `Doctor Rother says it's his only chance,' she added distressfully |
| distressingly | 18 | unpleasantly | - |
| distributable | 18 | - | - |
| distributions | 16 | - | - |
| distributives | 19 | - | - |
| distortedness | 15 | - | - |
| distinguishes | 18 | - | - |
| distantnesses | 14 | - | - |
| distastefully | 20 | in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | - |
| disthronising | 18 | - | - |
| disthronizing | 27 | - | - |
| distillations | 14 | - | - |
| distinguisher | 18 | - | - |
| distrustfully | 20 | with distrust | she looked at him distrustfully |
| dactyliomancy | 26 | - | - |
| decapsulation | 18 | - | - |
| decarburising | 19 | - | - |
| decarburizing | 28 | - | - |
| decasyllabics | 23 | - | - |
| decasyllables | 21 | - | - |
| deceivability | 24 | - | - |
| decelerations | 16 | - | - |
| decelerometer | 18 | - | - |
| decarburation | 18 | - | - |
| decarboxylate | 28 | lose a carboxyl group | the compound decarboxylated |
| decarbonating | 19 | - | - |
| decarbonation | 18 | - | - |
| decarbonators | 18 | - | - |
| decarbonisers | 18 | - | - |
| decarbonising | 19 | - | - |
| decarbonizers | 27 | - | - |
| decarbonizing | 28 | - | - |
| decarboxylase | 28 | any of the enzymes that hydrolize the carboxyl group | - |
| decentralised | 17 | withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | - |
| decentralises | 16 | - | - |
| decentralists | 16 | - | - |
| decidednesses | 18 | - | - |
| deciduousness | 17 | - | - |
| decipherments | 23 | - | - |
| decitizenised | 26 | - | - |
| decitizenises | 25 | - | - |
| decitizenized | 35 | - | - |
| decitizenizes | 34 | - | - |
| declamatorily | 21 | - | - |
| dechlorinates | 19 | - | - |
| dechlorinated | 20 | - | - |
| decentralizes | 25 | - | - |
| deceptibility | 23 | - | - |
| deceptiveness | 21 | the quality of being deceptive | - |
| decerebrating | 19 | - | - |
| decerebration | 18 | - | - |
| decerebrising | 19 | - | - |
| decerebrizing | 28 | - | - |
| declaratively | 22 | - | - |
| decapsulating | 19 | - | - |
| darlingnesses | 15 | - | - |
| darraignments | 17 | - | - |
| dastardliness | 15 | despicable cowardice | - |
| dastardnesses | 15 | - | - |
| daughterhoods | 22 | - | - |
| daughterlings | 19 | - | - |
| daunorubicins | 18 | - | - |
| dauntlessness | 14 | resolute courageousness | - |
| daredevilries | 18 | - | - |
| dangerousness | 15 | the quality of not being safe | - |
| dactylologies | 20 | - | - |
| daguerreotypy | 23 | - | - |
| damageability | 22 | - | - |
| damnabilities | 18 | - | - |
| damnification | 21 | - | - |
| dampishnesses | 21 | - | - |
| dandification | 20 | - | - |
| deactivations | 19 | - | - |
| deaminisation | 16 | - | - |
| deaminization | 25 | removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | - |
| decaffeinates | 22 | - | - |
| decalcomanias | 20 | - | - |
| decalescences | 20 | - | - |
| decamethonium | 23 | - | - |
| decapitalised | 19 | - | - |
| decapitalises | 18 | - | - |
| decapitalized | 28 | - | - |
| decapitalizes | 27 | - | - |
| debilitations | 16 | - | - |
| dearticulated | 17 | - | - |
| dearticulates | 16 | - | - |
| deaspirations | 16 | - | - |
| deathlessness | 17 | - | - |
| deathlinesses | 17 | - | - |
| deattributing | 17 | - | - |
| debasednesses | 17 | - | - |
| debauchedness | 22 | - | - |
| decapitations | 18 | - | - |
| deoxidization | 31 | - | - |
| depersonalize | 25 | make impersonal or present as an object | Will computers depersonalize human interactions? |
| dephlegmating | 23 | - | - |
| dephlegmation | 22 | - | - |
| dephlegmators | 22 | - | - |
| deplorability | 21 | - | - |
| depoliticised | 19 | - | - |
| depoliticises | 18 | - | - |
| depoliticized | 28 | - | - |
| depersonalise | 16 | make impersonal or present as an object | - |
| deoxycortones | 26 | - | - |
| deoxygenating | 26 | - | - |
| deoxygenation | 25 | - | - |
| deoxygenising | 26 | - | - |
| deoxygenizing | 35 | - | - |
| depauperating | 19 | - | - |
| depauperising | 19 | - | - |
| depauperizing | 28 | - | - |
| depoliticizes | 27 | - | - |
| depolymerised | 22 | - | - |
| depolymerises | 21 | - | - |
| depressurises | 16 | - | - |
| depressurized | 26 | - | - |
| depressurizes | 25 | - | - |
| deprogrammers | 21 | - | - |
| deprogramming | 22 | - | - |
| deputisations | 16 | - | - |
| deputizations | 25 | - | - |
| deracialising | 17 | - | - |
| depressurised | 17 | - | - |
| depressomotor | 18 | - | - |
| depolymerized | 31 | - | - |
| depolymerizes | 30 | - | - |
| depopulations | 18 | - | - |
| depositations | 16 | - | - |
| deprecatingly | 22 | - | - |
| deprecatively | 24 | in a deprecative manner | - |
| deprecatorily | 21 | - | - |
| depreciations | 18 | - | - |
| deracializing | 26 | - | - |
| deoxidisation | 22 | - | - |
| denationalize | 23 | put under private control or ownership | The steel industry was denationalized |
| denaturalised | 15 | - | - |
| denaturalises | 14 | - | - |
| denaturalized | 24 | - | - |
| denaturalizes | 23 | - | - |
| denaturations | 14 | - | - |
| dendritically | 20 | - | - |
| dendrolatries | 15 | - | - |
| denationalise | 14 | put under private control or ownership | - |
| demythologize | 32 | remove the mythical element from (writings) | the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value |
| demonstrators | 16 | - | - |
| demonstratory | 19 | - | - |
| demultiplexer | 25 | - | - |
| demutualising | 17 | - | - |
| demutualizing | 26 | - | - |
| demyelinating | 20 | - | - |
| demyelination | 19 | loss of the myelin covering of some nerve fibers resulting in their impaired function | - |
