12-letter words containing d, r, s, a, m
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demonstrable — A demonstrable fact or quality can be shown to be true or to exist.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- demonstrated — Simple past tense and past participle of demonstrate.
- demonstrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demonstrate.
- demonstrator — Demonstrators are people who are marching or gathering somewhere to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- denominators — Plural form of denominator.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- diastereomer — either of a pair of stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other.
- diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disassembler — A program for converting machine code into a low-level symbolic language.
- discriminant — a relatively simple expression that determines some of the properties, as the nature of the roots, of a given equation or function.
- 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.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembarrass — to disentangle or extricate from something troublesome, embarrassing, or the like.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- disopyramide — a substance, C 21 H 29 N 3 O, used in its phosphate form in the symptomatic and prophylactic treatment of certain cardiac arrhythmias.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissimilarly — In a dissimilar way; differently.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- dram refresh — (storage) The operation which cycles through a DRAM reading each row and writing it back again to compensate for the gradual leakage of charge from the capacitors which store the data. This may be done by the CPU but is often done by a dedicated memory controller.
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- 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.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- drillmasters — Plural form of drillmaster.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- dromaeosaurs — Plural form of dromaeosaur.
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- dysrhythmias — Plural form of dysrhythmia.
- emerald isle — Ireland
- enamoredness — Quality of being enamored; love; infatuation.
- familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.