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12-letter words containing m, a, r, c

  • dermographic — dermatographia.
  • diagrammatic — Something that is in diagrammatic form is arranged or drawn as a diagram.
  • diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
  • dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
  • 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.
  • district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
  • docudramatic — Of or relating to docudrama.
  • dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
  • dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
  • double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
  • drama critic — a journalist who writes critiques of plays, or who talks about the theatre on radio or television
  • drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
  • dramatically — of or relating to the drama.
  • 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.
  • dreamcatcher — A small hoop containing a horsehair mesh, or a similar construction of string or yarn, decorated with feathers and beads, believed to give its owner good dreams. Dreamcatchers were originally made by American Indians.
  • 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.
  • dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
  • dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
  • echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
  • echo chamber — a room or studio with resonant walls for broadcasting or recording echoes or hollow sound effects.
  • ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
  • edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
  • elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
  • 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.
  • embranchment — A branching forth, as of trees for example.
  • embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
  • empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
  • enantiomeric — Of or pertaining to an enantiomer or the relation between enantiomers.
  • encroachment — Intrusion on a person's territory, rights, etc.
  • encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
  • encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
  • enharmonical — relating to the enharmonic scale
  • entrancement — The act of entrancing or the state of being entranced.
  • 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
  • factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
  • family court — court of domestic relations.
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • fire company — a company of firefighters.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • forasmuch as — since
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