12-Letter Words Starting With D
There are 759 twelve-letter words that start with D. The list below ranks them by real-world frequency, so everyday words like DISTRIBUTION, DESCRIPTIONS, DISABILITIES appear before the obscurities.
Every entry comes from the tournament word lists, the kind of list used in Scrabble, crosswords, and other word puzzles, so each one is a genuine dictionary word.
Most common
- distribution15
- descriptions17
- disabilities15
- developments20
- destinations13
- demonstrated16
- difficulties21
- downloadable19
- differential19
- distributors15
- demonstrates15
- disciplinary20
- dramatically20
- dictionaries15
- disappointed18
- departmental17
- discontinued16
- demographics23
- dissertation13
- depreciation17
All 759 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- distributing 16
- displacement 19
- dependencies 18
- deficiencies 20
- deliberately 18
- declarations 15
- disadvantage 18
- disconnected 18
- disagreement 16
- determinants 15
- discriminate 17
- disturbances 17
- dissatisfied 17
- designations 14
- distinctions 15
- denomination 15
- disappearing 18
- degeneration 14
- deregulation 14
- disseminated 16
- diamondbacks 24
- dictatorship 20
- disbursement 17
- disqualified 26
- distractions 15
- dispositions 15
- dissociation 15
- deliberation 15
- deteriorated 14
- disobedience 18
- domestically 20
- distillation 13
- disinfection 18
- degenerative 17
- discipleship 22
- discouraging 17
- debilitating 16
- desirability 18
- delightfully 23
- distributive 18
- disinfectant 18
- definitively 22
- delicatessen 15
- digitization 23
- domesticated 18
- desalination 13
- demonstrator 15
- dispensation 15
- demonstrable 17
- dehumidifier 22
- discriminant 17
- deliberative 18
- deceleration 15
- deformations 18
- depositories 15
- disorganized 24
- deactivation 18
- disregarding 16
- declassified 19
- dislocations 15
- diversifying 23
- disagreeable 16
- demonstrably 20
- disassembled 18
- disingenuous 14
- directorates 15
- decongestant 16
- dissociative 18
- demystifying 25
- disciplining 18
- denunciation 15
- doubleheader 19
- dopaminergic 20
- dispossessed 16
- duplications 17
- divestitures 16
- disincentive 18
- dimensioning 16
- disseminates 15
- denaturation 13
- dysfunctions 21
- disintegrate 14
- denominators 15
- deteriorates 13
- disenchanted 19
- definitional 16
- disinfecting 19
- dermatologic 18
- depositional 15
- disallowance 18
- dimerization 24
- delimitation 15
- disturbingly 19
- disreputable 17
- disapproving 21
- decapitation 17
- deportations 15
- diagrammatic 20
- deliberating 16
- directorship 20
- determinable 17
- dishonorable 18
- disheartened 17
- distilleries 13
- dinucleotide 16
- differencing 22
- densitometry 18
- diversionary 19
- dermabrasion 17
- divertimento 18
- demodulation 16
- deregulating 15
- discontented 16
- delamination 15
- disaffection 21
- diatomaceous 17
- doppelganger 19
- discoverable 20
- decompressed 20
- discrediting 17
- deflationary 19
- deactivating 19
- discotheques 27
- depreciating 18
- decommission 19
- decidability 21
- dysmenorrhea 21
- disaggregate 16
- desensitized 23
- demoralizing 25
- decentralize 24
- dispensaries 15
- disbelievers 18
- depopulation 17
- definiteness 16
- divisiveness 19
- depredations 16
- disorienting 14
- decomposable 21
- diverticulum 20
- dehumanizing 28
- degenerating 15
- dodecahedron 20
- divisibility 21
- disambiguate 18
- destabilized 25
- discontinues 15
- decisiveness 18
- disassociate 15
- disastrously 16
- daunorubicin 17
- determinedly 19
- distinctness 15
- disbelieving 19
- disgustingly 18
- disrespected 18
- deprivations 18
- demographers 21
- densitometer 15
- disconcerted 18
- depolarizing 25
- disqualifies 25
- dicarboxylic 29
- drinkability 22
- depressingly 19
- delineations 13
- decelerating 16
- destructions 15
- disjunctions 22
- demonization 24
- disinflation 16
- destructible 17
- dorsolateral 13
- driveability 21
- derivational 16
- disputations 15
- disembarking 22
- diverticular 18
- degradations 15
- dissolutions 13
- diencephalon 20
- disinherited 17
- dynamometers 20
- disconsolate 15
- downshifting 23
- devaluations 16
- discourteous 15
- deconstructs 17
- disaccharide 21
- discomfiture 20
- dismissively 21
- dogmatically 21
- diglycerides 20
- dialectology 19
- demodulators 16
- disdainfully 20
- decrementing 18
- diminishment 20
- dissociating 16
- disentangled 15
- discreteness 15
- democratized 27
- decipherment 22
- dreadnoughts 18
- depilatories 15
- destabilizes 24
- demarcations 17
- degeneracies 16
- draftsperson 18
- dicotyledons 19
- deglaciation 16
- derangements 16
- dysrhythmias 27
- desegregated 16
- dilapidation 16
- diabolically 20
- depositaries 15
- debilitation 15
- decoratively 21
- despairingly 19
- diseconomies 17
- disassembles 17
- decompresses 19
- dismembering 20
- distractedly 19
- diagonalized 24
- dorsoventral 16
- diphosphates 23
- detoxication 22
- derepression 15
- declinations 15
- denitrifying 20
- deflagration 17
- decapitating 18
- dominatrixes 22
- deoxygenated 25
- disquisition 22
- decipherable 22
- desquamation 24
- deionization 22
- disarranging 15
- disseminator 15
- dishonorably 21
- documentable 19
- directedness 16
- divertimenti 18
- dispensatory 18
- decreasingly 19
- disemboweled 21
- discursively 21
- dichotomized 30
- deliverances 18
- denouncement 17
- dominatrices 17
- derivatively 22
- distributees 15
- devastations 16
- discountable 17
- distributary 18
- daintinesses 13
- damaskeening 20
- damnableness 17
- damselfishes 21
- dappernesses 17
- daredeviltry 20
- daringnesses 14
- daughterless 17
- daydreamlike 23
- daylightings 21
- deacidifying 23
- deactivators 18
- deadlinesses 14
- deaminations 15
- deathwatches 24
- debarkations 19
- debaucheries 20
- debonairness 15
- debouchments 22
- debridements 18
- decaffeinate 21
- decalcifying 24
- decalcomania 19
- decantations 15
- decapitators 17
- decarbonated 18
- decarbonates 17
- decarbonized 27
- decarbonizer 26
- decarbonizes 26
- decarburized 27
- decarburizes 26
- decasyllabic 22
- decasyllable 20
- decelerators 15
- decemvirates 20
- decerebrated 18
- decerebrates 17
- decertifying 22
- dechlorinate 18
- decimalizing 27
- declamations 17
- declassifies 18
- declensional 15
- decollations 15
- decolletages 16
- decolonizing 25
- decolorizers 24
- decolorizing 25
- decompensate 19
- deconditions 16
- decongesting 17
- decongestion 16
- decongestive 19
- deconsecrate 17
- decontrolled 16
- decorousness 15
- decorticated 18
- decorticates 17
- decorticator 17
- decrepitated 18
- decrepitates 17
- decrepitudes 18
- decrescendos 18
- decussations 15
- deepfreezing 28
- deerstalkers 17
- deescalating 16
- deescalation 15
- defalcations 18
- defeminizing 28
- defenestrate 16
- defibrillate 18
- defibrinated 19
- defibrinates 18
- definitizing 26
- deflagrating 18
- deflorations 16
- defoliations 16
- deforcements 20
- deformalized 28
- deformalizes 27
- degenerately 17
- deglamorized 26
- deglamorizes 25
- deglutitions 14
- degressively 20
- degringolade 16
- degustations 14
- dehumidified 23
- dehumidifies 22
- dehydrations 20
- deifications 18
- dejectedness 23
- delaminating 16
- delectations 15
- delinquently 25
- deliquescent 24
- deliquescing 25
- delocalizing 25
- delusiveness 16
- demagnetized 26
- demagnetizer 25
- demagnetizes 25
- dementedness 16
- demilitarize 24
- demimondaine 18
- demineralize 24
- demobilizing 27
- democratizer 26
- democratizes 26
- demodulating 17
- demographies 21
- demolishment 20
- demonetizing 25
- demoniacally 20
- demonologies 16
- demonologist 16
- demoralizers 24
- demulsifying 22
- demurenesses 15
- denaturalize 22
- dendrologies 15
- dendrologist 15
- denervations 16
- denigrations 14
- denitrifiers 16
- denominating 16
- denominative 18
- denticulated 16
- denuclearize 24
- denunciative 18
- denunciatory 18
- deontologies 14
- deontologist 14
- deoxidations 21
- deoxygenates 24
- deoxyriboses 25
- depolarizers 24
- depoliticize 26
- depolymerize 29
- depopulating 18
- depravations 18
- depravedness 19
- depravements 20
- deprecations 17
- depreciative 20
- depreciators 17
- depreciatory 20
- depressively 21
- depressurize 24
- deprograming 19
- deprogrammed 21
- deprogrammer 20
- deputization 24
- deracinating 16
- deracination 15
- derelictions 15
- derepressing 16
- derisiveness 16
- derivatizing 26
- dermatitides 16
- dermatitises 15
- dermatophyte 23
- derogatively 20
- derogatorily 17
- desacralized 25
- desacralizes 24
- desalinating 14
- desalinators 13
- desalinizing 23
- desecrations 15
- desegregates 15
- desensitizer 22
- desensitizes 22
- desertifying 20
- deservedness 17
- desexualized 30
- desexualizes 29
- desiccations 17
- desiderating 15
- desideration 14
- desiderative 17
- desipramines 17
- desirousness 13
- desolateness 13
- desolatingly 17
- desperations 15
- despisements 17
- despitefully 21
- despiteously 18
- despoilments 17
- despoliation 15
- despondences 18
- despondently 19
- despotically 20
- desquamating 25
- dessertspoon 15
- destitutions 13
- desulfurized 26
- desulfurizes 25
- detachedness 19
- detailedness 14
- detasselling 14
- detergencies 16
- determinably 20
- determinator 15
- determinisms 17
- determinists 15
- detestations 13
- dethronement 18
- detonability 18
- detoxicating 23
- detractively 21
- detrainments 15
- detribalized 25
- detribalizes 24
- detrimentals 15
- detumescence 19
- deuteranopes 15
- deuteranopia 15
- deuteranopic 17
- deuterations 13
- deuterostome 15
- deverbatives 21
- deviationism 18
- deviationist 16
- devilishness 19
- devitalizing 26
- devitrifying 23
- devocalizing 28
- devotionally 19
- devoutnesses 16
- dextrorotary 23
- diabetogenic 18
- diageotropic 18
- diagnoseable 16
- diagnostical 16
- diagonalizes 23
- diagrammable 20
- dialectician 17
- dialogically 19
- diamagnetism 18
- diaphanously 21
- diaphoretics 20
- diaphragming 22
- diapositives 18
- diastereomer 15
- diastrophism 20
- diatessarons 13
- diatonically 18
- dibenzofuran 27
- dichlorvoses 21
- dichotically 23
- dichotomists 20
- dichotomizes 29
- dichromatism 22
- dichroscopes 22
- dictyosteles 18
- didactically 21
- didacticisms 20
- diencephalic 22
- dietetically 18
- differentiae 19
- diffractions 21
- diffusionism 21
- diffusionist 19
- difunctional 18
- digitalizing 24
- digressional 14
- digressively 20
- dilapidating 17
- dilatability 18
- dilatational 13
- dilatometers 15
- dilatometric 17
- dilatoriness 13
- dilettantish 16
- dilettantism 15
- dillydallied 18
- dillydallies 17
- dilutenesses 13
- dimercaprols 19
- diminishable 20
- diminutively 21
- dipeptidases 18
- diphtheritic 23
- diphtheroids 22
- diphthonging 23
- diphthongize 31
- diploblastic 19
- diplodocuses 18
- diplomatists 17
- dipsomaniacs 19
- dipterocarps 19
- directnesses 15
- directresses 15
- disablements 17
- disaccording 19
- disaccustoms 19
- disaffecting 22
- disaffiliate 19
- disaffirming 22
- disagreeably 19
- disannulling 14
- disapprovals 20
- disapprovers 20
- disarmaments 17
- disbandments 18
- disbowelling 19
- disbranching 21
- disburdening 17
- discerningly 19
- discernments 17
- discipliners 17
- disclamation 17
- discographer 21
- discographic 23
- discolouring 16
- discomfiting 21
- discomforted 21
- discommended 21
- discommoding 21
- discomposing 20
- discomposure 19
- disconfirmed 21
- discordances 18
- discordantly 19
- discouragers 16
- discreetness 15
- discrepantly 20
- disembarrass 17
- disembodying 22
- disemboguing 19
- disemploying 21
- disenchanter 18
- disencumbers 19
- disendowment 19
- disentailing 14
- disentangles 14
- disenthralls 16
- disentitling 14
- disestablish 18
- disesteeming 16
- disfavouring 20
- disfranchise 21
- disfunctions 18
- disfurnished 20
- disfurnishes 19
- disgruntling 15
- disguisement 16
- disgustfully 20
- disharmonies 18
- disharmonize 27
- dishevelling 20
- dishonesties 16
- disillusions 13
- disinclining 16
- disinfestant 16
- disinfesting 17
- disinforming 19
- disinhibited 19
- disinterests 13
- disinterment 15
- disinterring 14
- disinvesting 17
- disjointedly 24
- disjunctives 25
- disjunctures 22
- dislodgement 17
- dislodgments 17
- disloyalties 16
- dismalnesses 15
- disorderedly 18
- disorganizes 23
- disorientate 13
- dispersively 21
- dispiritedly 19
- displaceable 19
- displeasures 15
- disportments 17
- dispossesses 15
- dispossessor 15
- disputatious 15
- disquietudes 23
- disregardful 18
- disrelations 13
- disrelishing 17
- disremembers 19
- disreputably 20
- disruptively 21
- dissatisfies 16
- disseminules 15
- dissentients 13
- dissepiments 17
- dissertating 14
- dissertators 13
- disseverance 18
- disseverment 18
- dissimilarly 18
- dissimilated 16
- dissimilates 15
- dissimulated 16
- dissimulates 15
- dissimulator 15
- dissipatedly 19
- dissipations 15
- dissuasively 19
- dissyllables 18
- dissymmetric 22
- distemperate 17
- distempering 18
- distortional 13
- distractable 17
- distractible 17
- distrainable 15
- distraughtly 20
- disunionists 13
- disutilities 13
- ditchdiggers 21
- ditransitive 16
- diuretically 18
- divaricating 19
- divarication 18
- divergencies 19
- diversifiers 19
- diversionist 16
- dividendless 18
- divisionisms 18
- divisionists 16
- divorcements 20
- doctrinaires 15
- dodecahedral 20
- dodecaphonic 23
- doggednesses 16
- dolomitizing 25
- dolorousness 13
- domesticates 17
- domiciliated 18
- domiciliates 17
- dorsiventral 16
- doublenesses 15
- doublespeaks 21
- doublethinks 22
- doubtfulness 18
- doughnutlike 21
- douroucoulis 15
- dovishnesses 19
- downtrending 18
- downwardness 20
- doxorubicins 24
- doxycyclines 30
- draftinesses 16
- dramatizable 26
- dramaturgies 16
- drapeability 20
- dreadfulness 17
- dreamfulness 18
- dreaminesses 15
- drearinesses 13
- dressinesses 13
- dressmakings 20
- drillability 18
- drillmasters 15
- drivennesses 16
- droughtiness 17
- drowsinesses 16
- drumbeatings 18
- drysalteries 16
- dumbfounders 21
- dumbfounding 22
- dumortierite 15
- dunderheaded 19
- duodecillion 16
- durabilities 15
- dwarfishness 22
- dyeabilities 18
- dynamometric 22
- dynastically 21
- dysphemistic 25
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many twelve-letter words are there that start with D?
There are 759 twelve-letter words that start with D in the tournament word lists. The most common are DISTRIBUTION, DESCRIPTIONS, DISABILITIES.
What are common twelve-letter words that start with D?
DISTRIBUTION, DESCRIPTIONS, DISABILITIES, DEVELOPMENTS, DESTINATIONS are the most frequently used. The full list of 759 words on this page is sorted by everyday frequency, so the common ones come first.
Can I play these words in Scrabble?
Yes. The list combines ENABLE and the North American tournament list (TWL), so these words are playable in Scrabble-style games, including Words With Friends.
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