13-Letter Words Starting With D
Looking for thirteen-letter words that start with D? There are 499 of them in the tournament word lists, and every one is on this page. The most common, like DOCUMENTATION, DETERMINATION, DEMONSTRATION, sit right at the top.
Unlike alphabetical lists that bury likely answers in the middle, this list is sorted by how often each word appears in everyday English. Scan the first rows for probable answers; dig deeper for rare, high-scoring plays.
Most common
- documentation18
- determination16
- demonstration16
- distinguished19
- developmental21
- distributions16
- discrepancies20
- dissemination16
- demonstrating17
- disadvantages19
- disadvantaged20
- decomposition20
- disappointing19
- discretionary19
- dehydrogenase22
- differentiate20
- deterioration14
- documentaries18
- disappearance20
- deterministic18
All 499 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- denominations 16
- dissertations 14
- deliberations 16
- distinguishes 18
- decentralized 26
- disbursements 18
- discontinuity 19
- demonstrators 16
- dysfunctional 22
- disseminating 17
- differentials 20
- disagreements 17
- deforestation 17
- deteriorating 15
- decompression 20
- discriminated 19
- dependability 22
- delicatessens 16
- disconnection 18
- dexamethasone 26
- disengagement 18
- discontinuous 16
- dermatologist 17
- discoloration 16
- disillusioned 15
- displacements 20
- defibrillator 19
- disrespectful 21
- dehumidifiers 23
- disinterested 15
- discontinuing 17
- disconnecting 19
- dimensionless 16
- disaggregated 18
- disinfectants 19
- decarboxylase 28
- distinctively 22
- disconcerting 19
- desegregation 16
- dismemberment 22
- decaffeinated 23
- destabilizing 26
- disintegrated 16
- dictatorships 21
- discriminates 18
- demonstrative 19
- deductibility 22
- domestication 18
- digestibility 20
- discographies 22
- disincentives 19
- disheartening 18
- diametrically 21
- determinative 19
- disqualifying 30
- discriminator 18
- dispassionate 16
- dissimilarity 19
- decongestants 17
- disfigurement 20
- deconstructed 19
- directorships 21
- diaphragmatic 24
- disinvestment 19
- dimensionally 19
- dramatization 25
- denunciations 16
- dispositional 16
- disassembling 19
- delinquencies 25
- demyelinating 20
- demultiplexer 25
- demilitarized 26
- dispossession 16
- democratizing 28
- defensiveness 20
- decontaminate 18
- decompressing 21
- dismantlement 18
- detectability 21
- dangerousness 15
- dispensations 16
- devastatingly 21
- destructively 22
- daguerreotype 20
- disintegrates 15
- densification 19
- desensitizing 24
- detrimentally 19
- disproportion 18
- disparagement 19
- demyelination 19
- disassociated 17
- disentangling 16
- disrespecting 19
- dramatisation 16
- disfunctional 19
- disaccharides 22
- diagnostician 17
- dinitrophenol 19
- dissimulation 16
- degranulation 15
- deodorization 24
- deontological 17
- directionless 16
- demineralized 26
- descriptively 24
- dischargeable 22
- discomforting 22
- documentarian 18
- distressingly 18
- declaratively 22
- decompensated 21
- disgracefully 23
- disorientated 15
- disparagingly 21
- deprogramming 22
- dibenzofurans 28
- deceitfulness 19
- disinhibition 19
- decriminalize 27
- discriminants 18
- domesticating 19
- disubstituted 17
- dehumidifying 27
- disambiguated 20
- deliciousness 16
- diffusivities 23
- dieffenbachia 27
- depreciations 18
- diphenylamine 24
- discreditable 19
- densitometric 18
- dialectically 21
- disequilibria 25
- dinucleotides 17
- decelerations 16
- degenerations 15
- dissociations 16
- disallowances 19
- dermatophytes 24
- densitometers 16
- disseminators 16
- demographical 24
- disfranchised 23
- dissatisfying 21
- diastereomers 16
- decapitations 18
- deformational 19
- draftsmanship 24
- dissimilatory 19
- dramaturgical 19
- doubleheaders 20
- defensibility 22
- deferentially 20
- dactylologies 20
- daguerreotypy 23
- damageability 22
- dandification 20
- daredevilries 18
- darlingnesses 15
- dastardliness 15
- daunorubicins 18
- dauntlessness 14
- deactivations 19
- deathlessness 17
- debilitations 16
- decaffeinates 22
- decalcomanias 20
- decamethonium 23
- decarbonating 19
- decarbonation 18
- decarbonizers 27
- decarbonizing 28
- decarboxylate 28
- decarburizing 28
- decasyllabics 23
- decasyllables 21
- decentralizes 25
- deceptiveness 21
- decerebrating 19
- decerebration 18
- dechlorinated 20
- dechlorinates 19
- decidednesses 18
- deciduousness 17
- decipherments 23
- declassifying 23
- declinational 16
- decommissions 20
- decompensates 20
- deconcentrate 18
- deconditioned 18
- decongestions 17
- deconsecrated 19
- deconsecrates 18
- deconstructor 18
- decontrolling 17
- decorticating 19
- decortication 18
- decorticators 18
- decrepitating 19
- decrepitation 18
- deescalations 16
- defeasibility 22
- defectiveness 22
- defenestrated 18
- defenestrates 17
- defenselessly 20
- defervescence 24
- defibrillated 20
- defibrillates 19
- defibrinating 20
- defibrination 19
- deflagrations 18
- deformalizing 29
- deglaciations 17
- deglamorizing 27
- degringolades 17
- dehydrogenate 22
- deinonychuses 22
- deionizations 23
- delaminations 16
- delectability 21
- deleteriously 17
- delightedness 19
- delimitations 16
- deliquescence 27
- deliriousness 14
- demagnetizers 26
- demagnetizing 27
- demagogically 23
- demagogueries 18
- demandingness 18
- dematerialize 25
- demigoddesses 19
- demilitarizes 25
- demimondaines 19
- demineralizer 25
- demineralizes 25
- democratizers 27
- demodulations 17
- demolishments 21
- demolitionist 16
- demonizations 25
- demonological 19
- demonologists 17
- demythologize 32
- denationalize 23
- denaturalized 24
- denaturalizes 23
- denaturations 14
- dendrological 18
- dendrologists 16
- deniabilities 16
- denominatives 19
- denouncements 18
- denticulation 16
- denuclearized 26
- denuclearizes 25
- deontologists 15
- deoxygenating 26
- deoxygenation 25
- depersonalize 25
- depoliticized 28
- depoliticizes 27
- depolymerized 31
- depolymerizes 30
- depopulations 18
- deprecatingly 22
- deprecatorily 21
- depressurized 26
- depressurizes 25
- deprogrammers 21
- deputizations 25
- deracinations 16
- derealization 23
- deregulations 15
- derepressions 16
- dermabrasions 18
- dermatologies 17
- desacralizing 26
- desalinations 14
- desegregating 17
- desensitizers 23
- desexualizing 31
- desiderations 15
- desirableness 16
- desperateness 16
- despoliations 16
- despondencies 19
- desquamations 25
- dessertspoons 16
- destituteness 14
- destructivity 22
- desulfurizing 27
- desultoriness 14
- detachability 24
- detectivelike 23
- deteriorative 17
- determinacies 18
- determinantal 16
- determinately 19
- determinators 16
- deterrability 19
- dethronements 19
- detoxications 23
- detribalizing 26
- detumescences 20
- deuteragonist 15
- deuteranomaly 19
- deuteranopias 16
- deuterostomes 16
- deviationisms 19
- deviationists 17
- deviousnesses 17
- devolutionary 20
- devolutionist 17
- devotednesses 18
- dexterousness 21
- diabetologist 17
- diagonalizing 25
- dialecticians 18
- diamagnetisms 19
- diaphaneities 19
- diastrophisms 21
- diathermanous 19
- diazotization 32
- dichotomizing 31
- dichotomously 24
- dichromatisms 23
- dictatorially 19
- diencephalons 21
- dieselization 23
- differentness 20
- diffusenesses 20
- diffusionisms 22
- diffusionists 20
- diffusiveness 23
- digitizations 24
- digitoxigenin 23
- digraphically 25
- digressionary 18
- dilapidations 17
- dilatometries 16
- dilettantisms 16
- dillydallying 22
- dimerizations 25
- diminishments 21
- diphthongized 33
- diphthongizes 32
- dipsomaniacal 20
- directivities 19
- disaccustomed 21
- disaffections 22
- disaffiliated 21
- disaffiliates 20
- disaffirmance 24
- disaggregates 17
- disambiguates 19
- disarticulate 16
- disassemblies 18
- disassociates 16
- disburdenment 19
- discipleships 23
- disciplinable 20
- disclamations 18
- discographers 22
- discomfitures 21
- discommending 22
- discomposures 20
- disconfirming 22
- disconformity 24
- discontenting 17
- discordancies 19
- discourtesies 16
- discreditably 22
- discriminable 20
- discriminably 23
- disemboweling 22
- disembowelled 22
- disenchanters 19
- disenchanting 20
- disencumbered 21
- disendowments 20
- disenthralled 18
- disfranchises 22
- disfurnishing 21
- disguisements 17
- disharmonious 19
- disharmonized 29
- disharmonizes 28
- disinfections 19
- disinfestants 17
- disinflations 17
- disinheriting 18
- disinhibiting 20
- disintegrator 15
- disinterments 16
- disintoxicate 23
- disjunctively 29
- dislodgements 18
- disobediences 19
- disobediently 20
- disorganizing 25
- disorientates 14
- disparateness 16
- disposability 21
- dispossessing 17
- dispossessors 16
- dispraisingly 20
- disquantitied 24
- disquantities 23
- disquietingly 27
- disquisitions 23
- disremembered 21
- disseverances 19
- disseverments 19
- dissimilating 17
- dissimilation 16
- dissimilitude 17
- dissimulating 17
- dissimulators 16
- dissoluteness 14
- dissymmetries 21
- distantnesses 14
- distastefully 20
- distillations 14
- distractingly 20
- distressfully 20
- distrustfully 20
- ditransitives 17
- divarications 19
- diversenesses 17
- diversionists 17
- divertimentos 19
- dividednesses 19
- doctrinairism 18
- documentalist 18
- documentarily 21
- documentarist 18
- dodecahedrons 21
- dodecaphonies 22
- dodecaphonist 22
- doggishnesses 19
- dogmatization 26
- dolefulnesses 17
- dollishnesses 17
- dolphinfishes 25
- doltishnesses 17
- domesticities 18
- domiciliating 19
- domiciliation 18
- domineeringly 20
- donnishnesses 17
- doppelgangers 20
- doublespeaker 22
- doubtlessness 16
- doughtinesses 18
- downheartedly 24
- downrightness 21
- draftspersons 19
- drapabilities 18
- dreamlessness 16
- drivabilities 19
- drunkennesses 18
- dryopithecine 24
- dualistically 19
- dubiousnesses 16
- dumbfoundered 23
- dumortierites 16
- duodecillions 17
- duplicitously 21
- durablenesses 16
- dutifulnesses 17
- dynamometries 21
- dysmenorrheas 22
- dysmenorrheic 24
- dyspeptically 26
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many thirteen-letter words are there that start with D?
There are 499 thirteen-letter words that start with D in the tournament word lists. The most common are DOCUMENTATION, DETERMINATION, DEMONSTRATION.
What are common thirteen-letter words that start with D?
DOCUMENTATION, DETERMINATION, DEMONSTRATION, DISTINGUISHED, DEVELOPMENTAL are the most frequently used. The full list of 499 words on this page is sorted by everyday frequency, so the common ones come first.
Why are the words in this order?
Words are ranked by how often they appear in a trillion-word corpus of written English, most common first. That surfaces likely puzzle answers instead of hiding them mid-alphabet. Use the sort control to switch to alphabetical or points order.
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