12-Letter Words Starting with DE

Deacidify

ACTIVATING activate

Process of stopping something working

Deactivator

DEADLINESS The quality of being deadly.

Deamination

Deathwatch

Debarkation

Debauchery

Causing weakness

""The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.""

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.

Debouchment

Debridement

Decalcify

The process of transferring pictures or designs printed on specially prepared paper to materials such as glass or metal.

Decantation

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

Strange patina to iced topping

An action that leaves the head isolated

Fate of Anne Boleyn

Decapitator

CARBONATED Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.

Decarbonate

Inflected form of CARBONIZED Inflected form of CARBONIZE To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

""He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.""

Decarbonize

Inflected form of CARBURIZED Inflected form of CARBURIZE To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

Decarburize

Having ten syllables

A line of verse having ten syllables.

Slowing down

A slowing down

Reduction in the going rate

Slowing of velocity

Decelerator

Decemvirate

""To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.""

Inflected form of CEREBRATED Inflected form of CEREBRATE To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

Decerebrate

Decertify

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

""(may take a clause or an infinitive as object; when intr, sometimes foll by on or about) to reach a decision decide what you want he decided to go""

""DECIMALIZE To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. as, to decimalize the currency.""

""Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable. as, old writings not decipherable.""

The act of deciphering.

Ability to settle issues

Ability to quickly settle issues

Declamation

Assertions from Aldi: 'Tesco ran badly'

Announcements made when there are enough on the board

Having a security classification removed so as to be open to public inspection; -- of documents or information.

Declassify

Belonging to declension.

Declination

Decollation

Decolletage

COLONIZING colonize

Decolorizer

COLORIZING colorize

Body that busted a Brooklyn gangster

Take (eg, a warship) out of operation

Promise not to fire editor coming back to ask journalist to say something

""COMPENSATE To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.""

Gloomy supporting party, Green politician: 'Cuts can be broken down'

Decompress

Decompress

Decondition

Medicine to unblock the nose

Medicine clearing airways

Catarrh reliever

Decongest

Decongest

Decongest

A cut in churchman's city rank gives cause to become secular

Deconstruct

CONTROLLED control

Decorative

DECOROUS {proper=adj}

CORTICATED Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.

Decorticate

""A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.""

Decreasing

""Inflected form of CREPITATED Inflected form of CREPITATE To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.""

Decrepitate

Decrepitude

Decrescendo

Decussation

Men hunting wild elks arrested

Defalcation

FEMINIZING feminize

Throw someone out of a window

Throw from a window

Throw out of a window

Inflected form of FIBRILLATE Inflected form of FIBRILLAE fibrilla

""DEFIBRINATE To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.""

Defibrinate

Deficiency

The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.

Like this crossword

In a definitive manner.

DEFINITIZE

""DEFLAGRATE To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.""

Burning away of a substance

Tending to reduce prices in the economy

Defloration

Defoliation

Deforcement

""FORMALIZED concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms, especially in religion or art; using formalism; as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".""

Deformalize

Deformation

Degeneracy

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Deteriorating

Worsening state of French breeding

Decline of French production

Decline of French age group

Welsh setback in case of wasting

GLACIATION Act of freezing.

Inflected form of GLAMORIZED Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Deglamorize

Deglutition

Degradation

Degressive

English word

Uncommon tastings pre-pared, got us instead

HUMANIZING humanize

HUMIDIFIED humidify

Device for reducing moisture content of the atmosphere

Dehumidify

Dehydration

Deification

The act or process of removing ions.

Lowness of spirits

LAMINATING laminate

Formation and separation of lamin\'91 or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

Delectation

Consciously and intentionally

Aggravated by lie altered on purpose

Bet die really rolls slowly

Considering adding carpeting to foodstore

PANNING THE COLD CUTS SHOP

Considering rearrest (wordplay)

Long and careful consideration

Thought on the continent of freedom

""Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body. as, a deliberative body.""

Not 1 across (as in selected outlets)

Mayo clinic (wordplay)

Tender foreign money around second shop

In a very pleasing manner

In a pleasing way

The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.

Delineation

So as to fail in duty.

Becoming liquid

LIQUESCING liquesce

Deliverance

LOCALIZING localize

DELUSIVE tending to delude

""Inflected form of MAGNETIZED Inflected form of MAGNETIZE To communicate magnetic properties to; as, to magnetize a needle. as, to magnetize a needle.""

""MAGNETIZER One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""

Demagnetize

Boundaries of specific areas

Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.

""MILITARIZE to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.""

I am embraced by devilish European that ensnares one shady lady

MINERALIZE To transform into a mineral.

MOBILIZING mobilize

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Democratize

MODULATING modulate

Extraction of a signal from its carrier

Demodulator

Demographer

Auto marketing strategy statistics

Data on population structures

Demography

Demolition.

MONETIZING monetize

In a demoniacal manner.

""DEMONIZE to make a demon of, also DEMONISE""

Demonology

""One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.""

Able to be proved

Verified animal registered in beasty home

It's evident, devil gets last sinner in firm

In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly.

Proven expert said to welcome head of research

Established validity of protest by deputy head

Fiend scolded after saint made public protest

Shows Tate Modern's bizarre point

Fanatics review opening in art gallery's shows

Devil on street with nasty stare kicks up a fuss

Dealer's test drive vehicle

Car wearing dealer plates, often

Participant in a public protest

Demoralizer

Discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.encouraging.

Demureness

Demystify

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

DENATURE to deprive of natural qualities

Dendrology

Good tendrils could excite this type of plant expert

Denervation

Denigration

Denitrifier

Denitrify

NOMINATING nominate

One, for one

He's mixed up in a religious group

Faith in money

Conferring a denomination or name.

Parts of fractions below the line

Math term.

Conclusion is to include North Carolina in the criticism

Conclusion is to include North Carolina for criticism

""An instrument for determining optical or photographic density. A variety capable of measuring optical density of a sample at a number of different wavelengths, is called a spectrophotometer.spectrophotometer.""

Measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light through it and measuring the intensity of the transmitted light.

""Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.""

Inflected form of NUCLEARIZE Inflected form of NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

Strong public criticism

Public condemnation of awful auctioned inn

What the whistleblower is capable of is informing

Same as Denunciatory. Denunciatory.

""Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language. as, severe and denunciatory language.""

Deontology

One versed in deontology.

Deoxidation

Like blood coursing through one's veins

Deoxygenate

Deoxyribose

Go mad and get sectioned

Organised in units, go crazy

Go mad from division

Dependency

Depilatory

Depolarizer