12-letter words containing d, e, m, a, s
- desquamative — tending to cause desquamation; characterized by desquamation
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- 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
- diastereomer — either of a pair of stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other.
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- dissimilated — Simple past tense and past participle of dissimilate.
- dissimulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dissimulate.
- dissimulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissimulate.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- domestic cat — feline kept as a pet
- domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domestically — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- domesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domesticates — Plural form of domesticate.
- 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.
- douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
- 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.