12-letter words containing a, s, i, m
- demonisation — the act of demonising
- 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
- descamisados — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- desquamative — tending to cause desquamation; characterized by desquamation
- destigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- deviationism — ideological deviation (esp from orthodox Communism)
- 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.
- dialecticism — the influence of dialect
- 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
- diamond dust — pulverized diamonds, used as an abrasive.
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- diastereomer — either of a pair of stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other.
- diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- didacticisms — Plural form of didacticism.
- die stamping — the production of words or decoration on a surface by using a steel die so that the printed images stand in relief
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- dilettantism — the practices or characteristics of a dilettante.
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- diplomatists — Plural form of diplomatist.
- dipsomaniacs — Plural form of dipsomaniac.
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disamenities — Plural form of disamenity.
- disassembled — Simple past tense and past participle of disassemble.
- disassembler — A program for converting machine code into a low-level symbolic language.
- disassembles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disassemble.
- disclamation — the act of disclaiming; renunciation; disavowal.
- discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
- 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.
- 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.
- dismal swamp — a swamp in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina. About 30 miles (48 km) long; about 600 sq. mi. (1500 sq. km).
- dismayedness — the condition of being dismayed
- 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.
- displacement — the act of displacing.