12-Letter Words Containing: DEA_

• minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers

• bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death

• the territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon

• a portrayal of something as ideal

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad

• something that exists only as an idea

• remove from active military status or reassign

• make inactive

• massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk

• breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges)

• the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb)

• a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)

• earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

• attempt by employing effort