12-letter words containing a, d, r, e, s, m
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- diastereomer — either of a pair of stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other.
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disassembler — A program for converting machine code into a low-level symbolic language.
- discriminate — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembarrass — to disentangle or extricate from something troublesome, embarrassing, or the like.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- disopyramide — a substance, C 21 H 29 N 3 O, used in its phosphate form in the symptomatic and prophylactic treatment of certain cardiac arrhythmias.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- dram refresh — (storage) The operation which cycles through a DRAM reading each row and writing it back again to compensate for the gradual leakage of charge from the capacitors which store the data. This may be done by the CPU but is often done by a dedicated memory controller.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- drillmasters — Plural form of drillmaster.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- dromaeosaurs — Plural form of dromaeosaur.
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- emerald isle — Ireland
- enamoredness — Quality of being enamored; love; infatuation.
- familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- formal dress — clothing for elegant or solemn occasions
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- grand master — the head of a military order of knighthood, a lodge, fraternal order, or the like.
- grandmasters — Plural form of grandmaster.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- haemorrhoids — Plural form of haemorrhoid.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
- headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- home address — the address of one's house or flat
- homesteaders — Plural form of homesteader.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- icbm address — (networking, humour) (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
- idea hamster — a person who is employed as a source of new ideas