12-letter words that end in t
- deontologist — ethics, especially that branch dealing with duty, moral obligation, and right action.
- derived unit — a unit of measurement obtained by multiplication or division of the base units of a system without the introduction of numerical factors
- dethronement — to remove from a throne; depose.
- developement — Obsolete spelling of development.
- deviationist — One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.
- diamond dust — pulverized diamonds, used as an abrasive.
- dictionarist — (rare) a person who creates dictionaries.
- diddly-squat — anything
- diffusionist — the theory or principle that diffusion is the main force in cultural innovation and change.
- diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- dipropellant — bipropellant.
- direct debit — regular automatic bank payment
- direct input — a device, such as a keyboard, used to insert data directly into a computerized system
- directed set — (theory) A set X is directed under some relation, <= (less than or equal), if it is non-empty and if for any two elements x and y there exists an element z such that x <= z and y <= z. I.e. all pairs have an upper bound.
- disaccordant — not agreeing
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- disciplinant — a person belonging to a former order of flagellants in Spain
- disconsonant — Not consonant; discordant.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discriminant — a relatively simple expression that determines some of the properties, as the nature of the roots, of a given equation or function.
- disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disguisement — Disguise (deceptive appearance).
- dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- disinfectant — any chemical agent used chiefly on inanimate objects to destroy or inhibit the growth of harmful organisms.
- disinfestant — a product used to remove infestation
- disintegrant — A disintegrant is an agent, used in the preparation of tablets, which causes them to disintegrate and release their medicinal substances on contact with moisture.
- disinterment — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- dispensement — Dispensation (handing out or distribution).
- dispersement — Misspelling of disbursement.
- dispiritment — the state of being dispirited
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- do one's bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
- do one's nut — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
- do your part — contribute
- docutainment — infotainment (def 2).
- domestic cat — feline kept as a pet
- doodly-squat — a minimum amount or degree; the least bit (usually used in the negative): This coin collection isn't worth doodly-squat in today's market.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double fault — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) two faults in succession, resulting in the loss of the point, the loss of the serve, or both.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- down and out — downward; going or directed downward: the down escalator.