12-letter words containing i, c, e, r, a, m
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- 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.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- 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.
- 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.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- emancipatrix — A woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- enantiomeric — Of or pertaining to an enantiomer or the relation between enantiomers.
- enharmonical — relating to the enharmonic scale
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- epigrammatic — Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing.
- epirrhematic — relating to epirrhema
- etheromaniac — a person who is addicted to ether
- extracampine — (psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- generic name — non-brand name of a product
- geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
- germ carrier — an organism carrying microorganisms, esp microorganisms that produce disease in animals or plants
- glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
- gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- grammaticize — (transitive) To render grammatical.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
- hammer price — the price offered as the winning bid in a public auction
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
- heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
- heroicomical — blending heroic and comic elements: a heroicomic poem.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people