12-letter words containing m, a, i, n, s
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- declamations — Plural form of declamation.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- demagnetizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demagnetize.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demibastions — Plural form of demibastion.
- demonisation — the act of demonising
- 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
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- deviationism — ideological deviation (esp from orthodox Communism)
- diamagnetism — the phenomenon exhibited by substances that have a relative permeability less than unity and a negative susceptibility. It is caused by the orbital motion of electrons in the atoms of the material and is unaffected by temperature
- diamond dust — pulverized diamonds, used as an abrasive.
- diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
- die stamping — the production of words or decoration on a surface by using a steel die so that the printed images stand in relief
- dilettantism — the practices or characteristics of a dilettante.
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- dipsomaniacs — Plural form of dipsomaniac.
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disamenities — Plural form of disamenity.
- disclamation — the act of disclaiming; renunciation; disavowal.
- discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
- 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.
- 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.
- dismayedness — the condition of being dismayed
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- disseminated — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- disseminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disseminate.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- 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.
- duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
- dynamic dbms — dynamic database management system
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- eastern time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
- ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- eliminations — Plural form of elimination.