12-Letter Words Starting with D

Disseminate

One who spreads (something) widely

Disseminule

Dissentient

Dissepiment

DISSERTATE To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.

Essay may be seen as sanitised rot

Essay for a degree or diploma

To a degree you have to defend it

Dissertator

The act of disserving; separation.

Disseverance.

In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.

DISSIMILATE To render dissimilar.

Dissimilate

SIMULATED simulate

Dissimulate

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Dissipated

Dissipation

""DISSOCIATE To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.""

Action of separating

Tending or leading to dissociation.

Dissolution

Dissuasive

Dissyllable

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

Immoderate.

Distemper

Process producing spirits

Process for producing spirits

Whisky-making process

Laphroaig, Glenfiddich and Macallan

Places with plenty of alcohol

They raise the spirits

Distinction

The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things.

""DISTORTION The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body. as, the distortions of the face or body.""

""TRACTABLE Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. as, tractable children; a tractable learner.""

Disjointedly; madly.

Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.

Distraction

""Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.""

Distraught

Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.

Distributee

Handing out

Most of the issue is charged and leads to handouts

Apportionment

Give out to missing Egyptian leader on charge of supplying demand

Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.

Distributor

Gambles crossing street of city in riots

Riots

Disturbing

Disunionist

Disutility

Ditchdigger

""Of or relating to a verb that takes or can take two objects, as begrudge in I don't begrudge you your good luck, or find in She found him a job.""

DIURETIC a drug which increases urinary discharge

DIVARICATE To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

Divergency

Diversifier

I had turned up poet's work showing more variety

Intended to distract attention

Programme in radio's very distracting

Like some tactics journal containing one account

""DIVERSION The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business. as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.""

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

Pl. divertimentos or divertimenti (-t ) A chiefly 18th-century form of instrumental chamber music having several short movements. Also called divertissement .

Light musical piece

Light orchestral work

Piece of music Verdi arranged, with tempo not changed

Divestiture

DIVIDEND a quantity to be divided

The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation.

Divisionism

Divisionist

State causing dissension

Divorcement

Doctrinaire

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

""Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides.""

Twelve-faced solid

Any polyhedron having 12 plane faces

Hooded dancer in motion revealing solid figure

""Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.""

Doggedness

In an arrogant way.

DOLOMITIZE

DOLOROUS {mournful=adj}

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Eddie's tomcat might well be!

Tamed like a pet

Accustomed to home life

Domesticate

DOMICILIATE To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

Domiciliate

DOMINATE to {control=v}

DOPAMINE a form of dopa used to stimulate the heart

Ghostly double of a live person

Living person's double

Ghostly lookalike of a human

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

Of or involving both the back and the side.

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

Back-to-back baseball games

July 4th tradition.

Marathon at Camden Yards

Doubleness

Doublespeak

Doublethink

Lose funds but shift suspicion

Suspicion this is open to debate on four points, one of them repeated

Adjective meaning resembling

Douroucouli

Dovishness

Is not up to getting delivery from talented type that's accessible from the net

Downshift

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

Doxorubicin

Doxycycline

Draftiness

A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.

Excitingly, it's a play with jerk close to friend

Scene from Rising? It is caught by friend theatrically!

Silly Tracy, maid hugging everyone in exaggerated fashion

Capable of being dramatized.

Dramaturgy

Abstract noun (-ity)

The quality of being dreadful.

Turreted battleships

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

Dreaminess

Dreariness

Dressiness

Dressmaking

Abstract noun (-ity)

Dentists (wordplay)

Dentists?

Suitable or fit for drinking; potable: drinkable water.

The act of driving.

Drivenness

A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.

Drowsiness

Drumbeating

Drysaltery

DUMBFOUNDER dumbfound

Dumbfound

""A glassy pink, green, violet, or blue aluminum borosilicate mineral, Al 8 BSi 3 O 19 OH, used in spark-plug ceramics and as imitation lapis lazuli.""

Thickheaded; stupid.

The cardinal number equal to 10 39 .

Duplication

Durability

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

Dyeability

Dynamometer

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

Dynastical

Dysfunction

Difficult and painful menstruation.

Adjective (-ic)

Dysrhythmia