12-letter words containing i, n, o, r, d, e
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disenrolling — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disinherison — Disherison.
- disoperation — a relationship between two organisms in a community that is harmful to both
- disordinance — (obsolete) disarrangement; disturbance.
- disorganised — Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
- disorganized — functioning without adequate order, systemization, or planning; uncoordinated: a woefully disorganized enterprise.
- disorientate — to disorient.
- disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- divertimento — an instrumental composition in several movements, light and diverting in character, similar to a serenade.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dog's dinner — mess, failure
- 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.
- donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- 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
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- eco-friendly — environmentally safe
- editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
- enchiridions — Plural form of enchiridion.
- 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.
- 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