11-letter words containing d, e, m, i, r
- deprivement — deprivation
- derailments — Plural form of derailment.
- dermatropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- dermotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- desipramine — a tricyclic antidepressant drug
- desmodromic — (of mechanisms, almost exclusively of valves) that are controlled in both directions of their movement. A desmodromic valve is one which is actively both opened and closed by a mechanism rather than by a spring
- deteriorism — the belief that everything is getting worse, that the universe is deteriorating or decaying
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- determinant — A determinant of something causes it to be of a particular kind or to happen in a particular way.
- determinate — Determinate means fixed and definite.
- determiners — Plural form of determiner.
- determining — having the quality of deciding
- determinism — Determinism is the belief that all actions and events result from other actions, events, or situations, so people cannot in fact choose what to do.
- determinist — A determinist is someone who believes in determinism.
- detrainment — The act of detraining.
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- diamorphine — heroin.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- diopsimeter — an instrument for measuring the field of vision.
- dioptometer — an instrument for measuring the refraction of the eye.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- dirt farmer — a farmer who works on the soil, distinguished from one who operates a farm with hired hands or tenants.
- dirty money — money obtained by immoral means
- disarmament — the act or an instance of disarming.
- disc camera — a camera that accepts a film cartridge in the form of a rotatable disc with film frames mounted around the outer edge.
- discardment — the act or process of discarding
- discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
- disclaimers — Plural form of disclaimer.
- disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
- disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
- disembitter — to remove (an attitude of) bitterness
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
- disempowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disempower.
- disenamored — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disinformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disinform.
- dismembered — Simple past tense and past participle of dismember.
- disportment — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disremember — to fail to remember; forget.
- dissymmetry — absence or lack of symmetry.
- distempered — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- dive bomber — an airplane of the fighter-bomber type that drops its bombs while diving at the enemy.
- divergement — the act of diverging, divergence
- diversiform — differing in form; of various forms.
- divorcement — divorce; separation.