12-letter words containing a, i, r, m, n, s
- bliss carman — (William) Bliss, 1861–1929, Canadian poet and journalist in the U.S.
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
- camp springs — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- canting arms — a coat of arms making visual reference to the surname of its owner
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
- chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
- chairmanship — The chairmanship of a committee or organization is the fact of being its chairperson. Someone's chairmanship can also mean the period during which they are chairperson.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- charlatanism — the practice or method of a charlatan.
- charmingness — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
- christianism — the beliefs and practices of Christians.
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- commanderies — the office or rank of a commander.
- commentaries — Plural form of commentary.
- conservatism — Conservatism is a political philosophy which believes that if changes need to be made to society, they should be made gradually. You can also refer to the political beliefs of a conservative party in a particular country as Conservatism.
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
- criminalness — (rare, dated) The state or quality of being criminal.
- criminations — Plural form of crimination.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- denominators — Plural form of denominator.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- discriminant — a relatively simple expression that determines some of the properties, as the nature of the roots, of a given equation or function.
- 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.
- 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.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- 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.
- eastern time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.