12-letter words containing d, i, m, e, n
- 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.
- 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 machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
- drum printer — a line printer that uses a rotating drum with raised characters, against which the paper is pressed.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- edge molding — a convexly rounded molding having a fillet or concavity at or near its centerline.
- editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- endometrioma — An ovarian cyst caused by endometriosis.
- endometritis — Inflammation of the endometrium.
- endomorphism — changes in a cooling body of igneous rock brought about by assimilation of fragments of, or chemical reaction with, the surrounding country rock
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- endothelioma — Any of various mostly benign neoplasms derived from the endothelium of blood vessels or lymph channels.
- enlisted man — military: male soldier
- ephemeridian — relating to ephemera
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- experimented — Simple past tense and past participle of experiment.
- exterminated — Simple past tense and past participle of exterminate.
- feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- feeding time — the regular time at which babies or animals are fed
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
- final demand — the last in a series of requests for payment of money owed, which usually contains a threat of legal action if the demand is ignored
- fixed-income — gaining or yielding a more or less uniform rate of income.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- fragmentized — fragmented.
- franked mail — official mail sent by members of Congress, the vice president, and other authorized officials. Compare frank1 (defs 6–9).
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
- habilimented — Clothed.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- have in mind — to remember
- hemodilution — a decreased concentration of cells and solids in blood, usually caused by an influx of fluid.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hereditament — any inheritable estate or interest in property.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- 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.
- hope diamond — a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
- 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.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.