12-letter words containing a, n, d, m, e, s
- deoxymannose — rhamnose.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- deviationism — ideological deviation (esp from orthodox Communism)
- diamagnetism — the phenomenon exhibited by substances that have a relative permeability less than unity and a negative susceptibility. It is caused by the orbital motion of electrons in the atoms of the material and is unaffected by temperature
- die stamping — the production of words or decoration on a surface by using a steel die so that the printed images stand in relief
- dilettantism — the practices or characteristics of a dilettante.
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disamenities — Plural form of disamenity.
- discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
- 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.
- dismayedness — the condition of being dismayed
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- disseminated — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- disseminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disseminate.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- don't ask me — You reply 'don't ask me' when you do not know the answer to a question, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that you have been asked.
- 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
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- enamoredness — Quality of being enamored; love; infatuation.
- enlisted man — military: male soldier
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- fundamentals — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- gladsomeness — (archaic) gladness.
- 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.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- handsomeness — The quality of being handsome.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.