14-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| disappointment | 21 | a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment |
| discrimination | 19 | the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | - |
| disorientation | 15 | a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug) | - |
| distinguishing | 20 | - | - |
| democratically | 24 | in a democratic manner; based on democratic principles | it was decided democratically |
| disintegration | 16 | in a decomposed state | - |
| discriminating | 20 | having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | - |
| disintegrating | 17 | - | - |
| deconstruction | 19 | a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | - |
| disciplinarian | 19 | someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | - |
| discriminatory | 22 | containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | discriminatory attitudes and practices |
| detoxification | 27 | a treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol intended to remove the physiological effects of the addictive substances | - |
| denominational | 17 | adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination | denominational prejudice |
| dematerialized | 27 | - | - |
| disinformation | 20 | misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) | - |
| differentiated | 22 | exhibiting biological specialization; adapted during development to a specific function or environment | - |
| decontaminated | 20 | - | - |
| desalinization | 24 | the removal of salt (especially from sea water) | - |
| diplomatically | 24 | with diplomacy; in a diplomatic manner | he answered very diplomatically |
| dimensionality | 20 | the spatial property of having dimensions | all matter has dimensionality |
| demobilization | 28 | act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | demobilization of factories |
| denazification | 29 | social process of removing Nazis from official positions and giving up any allegiance to Nazism | denazification was a slow process |
| dehumanization | 29 | the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | science has been blamed for the dehumanization of modern life |
| discouragement | 20 | the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | - |
| disarticulated | 18 | - | - |
| disillusioning | 16 | freeing from illusion or false belief | - |
| disenchantment | 22 | freeing from false belief or illusions | - |
| decompensation | 21 | - | - |
| decolonization | 26 | the action of changing from colonial to independent status | - |
| discolouration | 17 | a soiled or discolored appearance | - |
| disembowelment | 24 | the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | - |
| denationalized | 25 | - | - |
| discontentment | 19 | a longing for something better than the present situation | - |
| directionality | 20 | the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | - |
| disapprovingly | 26 | showing disapproval | he shook his head disapprovingly |
| disimpassioned | 20 | - | - |
| disembarkation | 23 | the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | - |
| discriminative | 22 | capable of making fine distinctions | - |
| disequilibrium | 28 | loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others | - |
| depersonalized | 27 | - | - |
| dermatological | 20 | of or relating to or practicing dermatology | - |
| diverticulosis | 20 | presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon | - |
| divertissement | 20 | - | - |
| deconsecration | 19 | - | - |
| decortications | 19 | - | - |
| decrepitations | 19 | - | - |
| decrepitnesses | 19 | - | - |
| decriminalised | 20 | - | - |
| decriminalises | 19 | - | - |
| decriminalized | 29 | - | - |
| decriminalizes | 28 | - | - |
| deducibilities | 20 | - | - |
| decorousnesses | 17 | - | - |
| decorativeness | 20 | an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive | - |
| deconstructing | 20 | - | - |
| deconstructive | 22 | - | - |
| deconstructors | 19 | - | - |
| decontaminants | 19 | - | - |
| decontaminates | 19 | - | - |
| decontaminator | 19 | - | - |
| defeasibleness | 20 | - | - |
| defeminisation | 20 | - | - |
| defeminization | 29 | - | - |
| definitiveness | 21 | - | - |
| deflagrability | 24 | - | - |
| deflocculating | 23 | - | - |
| deflocculation | 22 | - | - |
| deforestations | 18 | - | - |
| deformednesses | 21 | - | - |
| degenerateness | 16 | - | - |
| deglutinations | 16 | - | - |
| definitenesses | 18 | - | - |
| definabilities | 20 | - | - |
| defenestrating | 19 | - | - |
| defenestration | 18 | the act of throwing someone or something out of a window | - |
| defensibleness | 20 | - | - |
| defervescences | 25 | - | - |
| defibrillating | 21 | - | - |
| defibrillation | 20 | treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) | - |
| defibrillators | 20 | - | - |
| defibrinations | 20 | - | - |
| degranulations | 16 | - | - |
| deconsecrating | 20 | - | - |
| decaffeinating | 24 | - | - |
| decelerometers | 19 | - | - |
| decentralising | 18 | tending away from a central point | - |
| decentralizing | 27 | tending away from a central point | - |
| decerebrations | 19 | - | - |
| dechlorinating | 21 | - | - |
| dechlorination | 20 | - | - |
| dechristianise | 20 | - | - |
| dechristianize | 29 | - | - |
| deceivableness | 22 | - | - |
| decarburations | 19 | - | - |
| decamethoniums | 24 | - | - |
| decapitalising | 20 | - | - |
| decapitalizing | 29 | - | - |
| decapsulations | 19 | - | - |
| decarbonations | 19 | - | - |
| decarboxylases | 29 | - | - |
| decarboxylated | 30 | - | - |
| decarboxylates | 29 | - | - |
| decidabilities | 20 | - | - |
| decimalisation | 19 | the act of changing to a decimal system | - |
| decimalization | 28 | the act of changing to a decimal system | the decimalization of British currency |
| decommissioner | 21 | - | - |
| decompensating | 22 | - | - |
| decompositions | 21 | - | - |
| decompoundable | 24 | - | - |
| decompressions | 21 | - | - |
| deconcentrated | 20 | - | - |
| deconcentrates | 19 | - | - |
| decommissioned | 22 | - | - |
| decolorization | 26 | - | - |
| decisivenesses | 20 | - | - |
| decitizenising | 27 | - | - |
| decitizenizing | 36 | - | - |
| declassifiable | 22 | - | - |
| declensionally | 20 | - | - |
| decolonisation | 17 | the action of changing from colonial to independent status | - |
| decolorisation | 17 | - | - |
| deconditioning | 19 | - | - |
| demoralizingly | 30 | - | - |
| demultiplexers | 26 | - | - |
| demyelinations | 20 | - | - |
| demythologised | 25 | having mythical elements removed | - |
| demythologiser | 24 | - | - |
| demythologises | 24 | - | - |
| demythologized | 34 | having mythical elements removed | - |
| demythologizer | 33 | - | - |
| demoralization | 26 | destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | - |
| demoralisingly | 21 | - | - |
| demolitionists | 17 | - | - |
| demonetarising | 18 | - | - |
| demonetarizing | 27 | - | - |
| demonetisation | 17 | ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country | - |
| demonetization | 26 | ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country | - |
| demonstrations | 17 | - | - |
| demonstratives | 20 | - | - |
| demoralisation | 17 | destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | - |
| demythologizes | 33 | - | - |
| denationalised | 16 | - | - |
| denationalises | 15 | - | - |
| denticulations | 17 | - | - |
| denuclearising | 18 | - | - |
| denuclearizing | 27 | - | - |
| denumerability | 22 | - | - |
| deodorisations | 16 | - | - |
| deodorizations | 25 | - | - |
| deoxidisations | 23 | - | - |
| deoxidizations | 32 | - | - |
| densitometries | 17 | - | - |
| densifications | 20 | - | - |
| denationalizes | 24 | - | - |
| denaturalising | 16 | - | - |
| denaturalizing | 25 | - | - |
| denitrificator | 20 | - | - |
| denominatively | 23 | - | - |
| deoxygenations | 26 | - | - |
| degringolading | 19 | - | - |
| dehydroretinol | 22 | a viscous alcohol that is less active in mammals than is vitamin A1 | - |
| deipnosophists | 22 | - | - |
| dejectednesses | 25 | - | - |
| delectableness | 19 | - | - |
| delegitimation | 18 | - | - |
| delegitimising | 19 | - | - |
| delegitimizing | 28 | - | - |
| deliberateness | 17 | a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | - |
| dehydrogenizes | 32 | - | - |
| dehydrogenized | 33 | - | - |
| degringolering | 18 | - | - |
| dehumanisation | 20 | the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | - |
| dehydrogenases | 23 | - | - |
| dehydrogenated | 24 | - | - |
| dehydrogenates | 23 | - | - |
| dehydrogenised | 24 | - | - |
| dehydrogenises | 23 | - | - |
| deliberatively | 23 | - | - |
| delicatenesses | 17 | - | - |
| delightfulness | 22 | - | - |
| dementednesses | 18 | - | - |
| demilitarising | 18 | - | - |
| demilitarizing | 27 | - | - |
| demineralisers | 17 | - | - |
| demineralising | 18 | - | - |
| demineralizers | 26 | - | - |
| demineralizing | 27 | - | - |
| demisemiquaver | 31 | a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | - |
| dematerializes | 26 | - | - |
| deliquescences | 28 | - | - |
| delirifacients | 20 | - | - |
| deliverability | 23 | - | - |
| delocalisation | 17 | - | - |
| delocalization | 26 | - | - |
| delusivenesses | 18 | - | - |
| dematerialised | 18 | - | - |
| dematerialises | 17 | - | - |
| demobilisation | 19 | act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | - |
| debonairnesses | 17 | - | - |
| damnablenesses | 19 | - | - |
| damnifications | 22 | - | - |
| dandifications | 21 | - | - |
| daredeviltries | 19 | - | - |
| daughterliness | 19 | - | - |
| deambulatories | 19 | - | - |
| deaminisations | 17 | - | - |
| deaminizations | 26 | - | - |
| daguerreotypes | 21 | - | - |
| daguerreotyper | 21 | - | - |
| dactyliography | 29 | - | - |
| dactyliologies | 21 | - | - |
| dactylographer | 26 | - | - |
| dactylographic | 28 | - | - |
| dactyloscopies | 24 | - | - |
| daffadowndilly | 29 | - | - |
| daguerreotyped | 22 | - | - |
| dearticulating | 18 | - | - |
| disbelievingly | 24 | in an incredulous manner | - |
| discolorations | 17 | - | - |
| discolourments | 19 | - | - |
| discomboberate | 23 | - | - |
| discombobulate | 23 | cause to be confused emotionally | - |
| discomfortable | 24 | - | - |
| discommendable | 24 | - | - |
| discommissions | 21 | - | - |
| discographical | 25 | - | - |
| disciplinarium | 21 | - | - |
| disburdenments | 20 | - | - |
| discapacitated | 22 | - | - |
| discapacitates | 21 | - | - |
| disceptatorial | 19 | - | - |
| discerpibility | 24 | - | - |
| disciplinarily | 22 | - | - |
| disciplinarity | 22 | - | - |
| discommodities | 22 | - | - |
| discommunities | 21 | - | - |
| discomposingly | 25 | - | - |
| discontinuance | 19 | the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | - |
| discounselling | 18 | - | - |
| discountenance | 19 | look with disfavor on | The republic soon discountenanced its few friends |
| discourageable | 20 | - | - |
| discouragingly | 22 | in a discouraging manner | the failure rate on the bar exam is discouragingly high |
| discourteously | 20 | in an impolite manner | - |
| discreetnesses | 17 | - | - |
| discontentedly | 21 | with discontent; in a discontented manner | he was still rumbling discontentedly when Pike returned bearing a folder of foolscap sheets |
| disconcertedly | 23 | - | - |
| disconcertions | 19 | - | - |
| disconcertment | 21 | anxious embarrassment | - |
| disconformable | 24 | - | - |
| disconnectedly | 23 | - | - |
| disconnections | 19 | - | - |
| disconsolately | 20 | in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects | - |
| disconsolation | 17 | - | - |
| discretenesses | 17 | - | - |
| disauthorizing | 28 | - | - |
| dipterocarpous | 21 | - | - |
| disaffiliating | 22 | - | - |
| disaffiliation | 21 | - | - |
| disaffirmances | 25 | - | - |
| disaffirmation | 23 | the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | - |
| disafforesting | 22 | - | - |
| disaggregating | 19 | - | - |
| disaggregation | 18 | - | - |
| disaggregative | 21 | - | - |
| disadventurous | 19 | - | - |
| disadvantaging | 21 | - | - |
| directednesses | 18 | - | - |
| dirigibilities | 18 | - | - |
| disaccharidase | 23 | an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides | - |
| disaccommodate | 24 | - | - |
| disaccrediting | 21 | - | - |
| disaccustoming | 22 | - | - |
| disacknowledge | 26 | - | - |
| disambiguating | 21 | - | - |
| disambiguation | 20 | clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity | - |
| disapparelling | 20 | - | - |
| disarticulates | 17 | - | - |
| disarticulator | 17 | - | - |
| disassimilated | 18 | - | - |
| disassimilates | 17 | - | - |
| disassociating | 18 | - | - |
| disassociation | 17 | a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently | - |
| disattribution | 17 | - | - |
| disarrangement | 18 | a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | - |
| disappearances | 21 | - | - |
| disapplication | 21 | - | - |
| disappointedly | 23 | in disappointment; in a disappointed manner | she left the gambling table disappointedly |
| disapprobation | 21 | an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | - |
| disapprobative | 24 | - | - |
| disapprobatory | 24 | - | - |
| disappropriate | 21 | - | - |
| disauthorising | 19 | - | - |
| disestimations | 17 | - | - |
| disgustingness | 17 | the property of being extremely unacceptable to the mind | - |
| dishabilitated | 21 | - | - |
| dishabilitates | 20 | - | - |
| disharmonising | 21 | - | - |
| disharmonizing | 30 | - | - |
| disheartenment | 20 | the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | - |
| disilluminated | 18 | - | - |
| disilluminates | 17 | - | - |
| disgustfulness | 19 | - | - |
| disgruntlement | 18 | a feeling of sulky discontent | - |
| disfeaturement | 20 | - | - |
| disfellowships | 26 | - | - |
| disfigurations | 19 | - | - |
| disfigurements | 21 | - | - |
| disforestation | 18 | the removal of trees | - |
| disfranchising | 24 | - | - |
| disfurnishment | 23 | - | - |
| disgarrisoning | 17 | - | - |
| disillusionary | 18 | - | - |
| disillusionise | 15 | - | - |
| disinheritance | 20 | the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
| disinhibitions | 20 | - | - |
| disintegrative | 19 | tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
| disintegrators | 16 | - | - |
| disinteresting | 16 | - | - |
| disinthralling | 19 | - | - |
| disingenuously | 19 | in a disingenuous manner | disingenuously, he asked leading questions about his opponent's work |
| disingenuities | 16 | - | - |
| disillusionize | 24 | - | - |
| disimprisoning | 20 | - | - |
| disincarcerate | 19 | - | - |
| disinclination | 17 | a certain degree of unwillingness | - |
| disincorporate | 19 | - | - |
| disinfestation | 18 | the activity of getting rid of vermin | - |
| disintoxicated | 25 | - | - |
| disestablishes | 20 | - | - |
| discretionally | 20 | - | - |
| disembarkments | 25 | - | - |
| disembarrassed | 20 | - | - |
| disembarrasses | 19 | - | - |
| disembellished | 23 | - | - |
| disembellishes | 22 | - | - |
| disembittering | 20 | - | - |
| disembodiments | 22 | - | - |
| disemboguement | 22 | - | - |
| diseasednesses | 16 | - | - |
| discriminately | 22 | - | - |
| discriminators | 19 | - | - |
| discursiveness | 20 | the quality of being discursive | - |
| disdainfulness | 19 | the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | - |
| disembowelling | 23 | - | - |
| disembrangling | 21 | - | - |
| disengagements | 19 | - | - |
| disenshrouding | 20 | - | - |
| disentailments | 17 | - | - |
| disenthralling | 19 | - | - |
| disenthralment | 20 | - | - |
| disentrainment | 17 | - | - |
| disequilibrate | 26 | - | - |
| disengagedness | 18 | - | - |
| disenfranchise | 23 | deprive of voting rights | - |
| disemburdening | 21 | - | - |
| disemployments | 24 | - | - |
| disempowerment | 24 | - | - |
| disenablements | 19 | - | - |
| disenchantress | 20 | - | - |
| disencumbering | 22 | - | - |
| disencumbrance | 23 | - | - |
| disestablished | 21 | - | - |
| diprotodontids | 19 | - | - |
| derogatoriness | 16 | - | - |
| desolatenesses | 15 | - | - |
| despicableness | 21 | unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | - |
| despiritualise | 17 | - | - |
| despiritualize | 26 | - | - |
| despisednesses | 18 | - | - |
| despitefulness | 20 | - | - |
| despoticalness | 19 | - | - |
| despotocracies | 21 | - | - |
| desobligeantes | 18 | - | - |
| desirousnesses | 15 | - | - |
| desalinisation | 15 | the removal of salt (especially from sea water) | - |
| descriptivisms | 24 | - | - |
| desegregations | 17 | - | - |
| desertisations | 15 | - | - |
| desertizations | 24 | - | - |
| deservednesses | 19 | - | - |
| desirabilities | 17 | - | - |
| destructionist | 17 | - | - |
| destructivists | 20 | - | - |
| desulphurating | 21 | - | - |
| determinedness | 18 | - | - |
| detestableness | 17 | - | - |
| detonabilities | 17 | - | - |
| deuteragonists | 16 | - | - |
| deuterogamists | 18 | - | - |
| deuteroscopies | 19 | - | - |
| devalorisation | 18 | - | - |
| determinatives | 20 | - | - |
| determinations | 17 | - | - |
| desulphuration | 20 | - | - |
| desulphurisers | 20 | - | - |
| desulphurising | 21 | - | - |
| desulphurizers | 29 | - | - |
| desulphurizing | 30 | - | - |
| detachednesses | 21 | - | - |
| detailednesses | 16 | - | - |
| deteriorations | 15 | - | - |
| devalorization | 27 | - | - |
| dermatoplastic | 21 | - | - |
| departmentally | 22 | dependent on a department | - |
| depoliticising | 20 | - | - |
| depoliticizing | 29 | - | - |
| depolymerising | 23 | - | - |
| depolymerizing | 32 | - | - |
| depravednesses | 21 | - | - |
| depreciatingly | 23 | - | - |
| depressiveness | 20 | - | - |
| depressomotors | 19 | - | - |
| depolarization | 26 | a loss of polarity or polarization | - |
| depolarisation | 17 | a loss of polarity or polarization | - |
| dependableness | 20 | the quality of being dependable or reliable | - |
| depersonalised | 18 | - | - |
| depersonalises | 17 | - | - |
| depersonalizes | 26 | - | - |
| dephlegmations | 23 | - | - |
| depigmentation | 20 | absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair | - |
| deplorableness | 19 | - | - |
| depressurising | 18 | - | - |
| depressurizing | 27 | - | - |
| derealisations | 15 | - | - |
| derivationists | 18 | - | - |
| derivatisation | 18 | - | - |
| derivativeness | 21 | - | - |
| derivatization | 27 | - | - |
| dermatoglyphic | 28 | the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) | - |
| dermatographia | 23 | - | - |
| dermatographic | 25 | - | - |
| derisivenesses | 18 | - | - |
| derestrictions | 17 | - | - |
| derealizations | 24 | - | - |
| derecognitions | 18 | - | - |
| deregistration | 16 | - | - |
| dereligionised | 17 | - | - |
| dereligionises | 16 | - | - |
| dereligionized | 26 | - | - |
| dereligionizes | 25 | - | - |
| derequisitions | 24 | - | - |
| dermatologists | 18 | - | - |
| dieffenbachias | 28 | - | - |
| diffractometry | 28 | - | - |
| diffusednesses | 22 | - | - |
| diffusibleness | 23 | - | - |
| digestibleness | 18 | the property of being easy to digest | - |
| digitalisation | 16 | the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | - |
| digitalization | 25 | the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | - |
| digitoxigenins | 24 | - | - |
| dignifications | 21 | - | - |
| diffractometer | 25 | - | - |
| differentiator | 21 | a person who (or that which) differentiates | - |
| dielectrically | 22 | - | - |
| dieselisations | 15 | - | - |
| dieselizations | 24 | - | - |
| diffarreations | 21 | - | - |
| differentiable | 23 | capable of being perceived as different | differentiable species |
| differentially | 24 | in a differential manner | Hubel and Wiesel have found cells that respond differentially according to the direction in which a stimulus is moved across the retina |
| differentiates | 21 | - | - |
| digressiveness | 19 | - | - |
| dilatabilities | 17 | - | - |
| dilatorinesses | 15 | - | - |
| dioscoreaceous | 19 | - | - |
| diphenylamines | 25 | - | - |
| diphenylketone | 27 | - | - |
| diphtheritises | 23 | - | - |
| diphthongising | 25 | - | - |
| diphthongizing | 34 | - | - |
| dipleidoscopes | 22 | - | - |
| dioicousnesses | 17 | - | - |
| dinoturbations | 17 | - | - |
| dilettanteisms | 17 | - | - |
| dimenhydrinate | 24 | antihistamine and antiemetic (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness | - |
| dimethylamines | 25 | - | - |
| diminutiveness | 20 | the property of being very small in size | - |
| dinitrobenzene | 26 | - | - |
| dinitrophenols | 20 | - | - |
| dinoflagellate | 19 | chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton | - |
| diplostemonous | 19 | - | - |
| dieciousnesses | 17 | - | - |
| devilishnesses | 21 | - | - |
| dextrorotatory | 25 | rotating to the right | - |
| dextrousnesses | 22 | - | - |
| diabetologists | 18 | - | - |
| diabolicalness | 19 | - | - |
| diacatholicons | 22 | - | - |
| diachronically | 25 | - | - |
| diagenetically | 21 | - | - |
| diageotropisms | 20 | - | - |
| dextrorotation | 22 | rotation to the right | - |
| dextroglucoses | 25 | - | - |
| devitalisation | 18 | the act of reducing the vitality of something | - |
| devitalization | 27 | the act of reducing the vitality of something | - |
| devolutionists | 18 | - | - |
| devotionalists | 18 | - | - |
| devotionalness | 18 | - | - |
| dexamethasones | 27 | - | - |
| dexamphetamine | 31 | - | - |
| dextrocardiacs | 27 | - | - |
