12-letter words starting with de
- defederalize — to shift the functions or powers of (an agency, service, etc.) from the jurisdiction of the federal government to that of state or local government: to defederalize construction loans.
- defenestrate — to throw (a person or a thing) out of a window
- defibrillate — to stop fibrillation of (the heart), as by the use of electric current
- deficiencies — the state of being deficient; lack; incompleteness; insufficiency.
- definability — The quality of being definable.
- definiteness — clearly defined or determined; not vague or general; fixed; precise; exact: a definite quantity; definite directions.
- definitional — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- definitively — most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
- deflectional — of or relating to deflection
- deflocculant — a chemical added to slip to increase fluidity.
- deflocculate — to disperse, forming a colloid or suspension
- deflowerment — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- deformalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deformalize.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- deformed bar — a rod for reinforcing concrete, having surface irregularities, as transverse ridges, to improve the bond.
- defragmented — Simple past tense and past participle of defragment.
- defragmenter — (computing) That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.
- degenderized — Simple past tense and past participle of degenderize.
- degeneracies — Plural form of degeneracy.
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- degenerating — to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate: The morale of the soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- degerminated — degerm (def 2).
- deglaciation — the process of removing glaciation
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- deglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of deglutinate.
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- dehumanizing — denying or depriving of dignity
- dehumidified — Simple past tense and past participle of dehumidify.
- dehumidifier — A dehumidifier is a machine that is used to reduce the amount of moisture in the air.
- dehumidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumidify.
- dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
- deidentified — Simple past tense and past participle of deidentify.
- deindexation — the state of being no longer index-linked
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- deionization — to remove ions from.
- dejectedness — The state or quality of being dejected.
- delamination — separation into layers
- delapidation — Dated form of dilapidation.
- delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
- delay screen — (in a cathode-ray tube) a sensitized screen with a phosphorescent coating that retains the image formed by the electron beam for an appreciable time.