12-letter words containing d, e, t, r, m, i
- diastereomer — either of a pair of stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- dimerization — (chemistry) Any chemical reaction in which two monomers react to form a dimer.
- dirty-minded — tending to have vulgar, obscene, or lewd thoughts, interpretations, etc.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discomforted — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- discomforter — One who causes discomfort.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- 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.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disinterment — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- dispersement — Misspelling of disbursement.
- dispiritment — the state of being dispirited
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissenterism — the beliefs and practices of dissenters
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- dissymmetric — Asymmetric.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- distemperoid — resembling distemper.
- diverticulum — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- divertimento — an instrumental composition in several movements, light and diverting in character, similar to a serenade.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- dramatizable — Capable of being dramatized.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- dream ticket — If journalists talk about a dream ticket, they are referring to two candidates for political positions, for example President and Vice-President, or Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, who they think will be extremely successful.
- drillmasters — Plural form of drillmaster.
- drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
- driving time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- drum printer — a line printer that uses a rotating drum with raised characters, against which the paper is pressed.
- dumortierite — a mineral, aluminum borosilicate.
- dusty miller — Botany. any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence. rose campion.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
- endometrioma — An ovarian cyst caused by endometriosis.
- endometritis — Inflammation of the endometrium.
- experimented — Simple past tense and past participle of experiment.
- extemporised — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporise.
- extemporized — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporize.
- exterminated — Simple past tense and past participle of exterminate.
- fragmentized — fragmented.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- headmistress — a woman in charge of a private school.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.