12-letter words containing d, i, m, e
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- 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.
- 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.
- divorce mill — a divorce court, especially such a court in a state or country that does not impose difficult requirements, as a long period of residence or humiliating grounds, on those who wish to dissolve their marriage.
- docutainment — infotainment (def 2).
- domain model — (systems analysis) 1. A definition of the functions, objects, data, requirements, relationships and variations in a particular domain. 2. A product of domain analysis which provides a representation of the requirements of the domain. The domain model identifies and describes the structure of data, flow of information, functions, constraints and controls within the Domain that are included in software systems in the domain. The Domain Model describes commonalities and variabilities among requirements for software systems in the domain.
- domestic cat — feline kept as a pet
- domestic pig — Sus scrofa; an artiodactyl mammal of the African and Eurasian family Suidae, having a long head with a movable snout and a thick bristle-covered skin
- 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.
- domesticized — Simple past tense and past participle of domesticize.
- domiciliated — to domicile.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- domino paper — a marbleized or figured decorative paper, used for wallpaper, end papers, etc., printed from wood blocks and colored by hand.
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
- downy mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- 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.
- 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.
- duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
- dyslipidemia — (medicine) an inbalance of lipids (especially cholesterol) in the blood; hypercholesterolemia.
- dysphemistic — Of, pertaining to, or being a dysphemism.
- 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
- emblematized — Simple past tense and past participle of emblematize.
- embroiderers — Plural form of embroiderer.
- embroideries — Plural form of embroidery.
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- emerald isle — Ireland