0%

12-letter words containing d, o, a, n, i

  • donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
  • donatistical — relating to a Donatist or Donatism
  • donets basin — a river rising in the SW Russian Federation near Belgorod, flowing SE through Ukraine to the Don River. About 650 miles (1045 km) long.
  • doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
  • door curtain — a curtain that fills a doorway
  • dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
  • dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
  • dot notation — (networking)   Berkeley Unix notation for an Internet address, consisting of one to four numbers (a "dotted quad") in hexadecimal (leading 0x), octal (leading 0), or (usually) decimal. It represents a 32-bit address. Each leading number represents eight bits of the address (high byte first) and the last number represents the rest. E.g. address 0x25.32.0xab represents 0x252000ab. By far the most common form is four decimal numbers, e.g. 146.169.22.42. Many programs accept an address in dot notation in place of a hostname.
  • draconically — (often lowercase) Draconian.
  • dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
  • drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
  • drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
  • 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.
  • drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
  • drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
  • drop initial — inset initial.
  • duodecennial — relating to twelve years
  • duplications — Plural form of duplication.
  • dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
  • dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
  • easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
  • echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
  • edifications — Plural form of edification.
  • educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
  • educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
  • edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
  • elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
  • enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
  • enciclopedia — Misspelling of encyclopedia.
  • encyclopedia — An encyclopedia is a book or set of books in which facts about many different subjects or about one particular subject are arranged for reference, usually in alphabetical order.
  • endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
  • endocarditic — Having or relating to endocarditis.
  • endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
  • endocervical — Within a cervix.
  • endometrioma — An ovarian cyst caused by endometriosis.
  • endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
  • endothelioma — Any of various mostly benign neoplasms derived from the endothelium of blood vessels or lymph channels.
  • eradications — Plural form of eradication.
  • exheredation — A disinheriting; disherison.
  • expeditation — the act of expeditating a dog
  • extraditions — Plural form of extradition.
  • extrordinary — Misspelling of extraordinary.
  • falling door — flap door (def 1).
  • false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
  • faradization — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
  • fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
  • fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
  • ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
  • fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?