12-letter words containing m, e, a, l
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- decalcomania — the art or process of transferring a design from prepared paper onto another surface, such as china, glass, or paper
- decalcomanie — (dated) decalcomania.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- decimalizing — Present participle of decimalize.
- declamations — Plural form of declamation.
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- deformalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deformalize.
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- delamination — separation into layers
- delegitimate — (transitive) to remove the legitimacy from.
- delimitating — Present participle of delimitate.
- delimitation — delimit.
- delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- demilitarise — (British) alternative spelling of demilitarize.
- demilitarize — To demilitarize an area means to ensure that all military forces are removed from it.
- demineralize — to remove dissolved salts from (a liquid, esp water)
- democratical — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
- demodulation — the act or process by which an output wave or signal is obtained having the characteristics of the original modulating wave or signal; the reverse of modulation
- demoniacally — In a demoniacal manner.
- demonstrable — A demonstrable fact or quality can be shown to be true or to exist.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralizing — If something is demoralizing, it makes you lose so much confidence in what you are doing that you want to give up.
- demutualized — Simple past tense and past participle of demutualize.
- denormalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denormalize.
- deny a claim — If an insurance company denies a claim, it refuses to pay a claim submitted by a policyholder.
- departmental — Departmental is used to describe the activities, responsibilities, or possessions of a department in a government, company, or other organization.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- dermaplaning — a cosmetic treatment, often used to treat acne scars, in which surface irregularities are surgically scraped to give the skin a smoother appearance
- dermatologic — Dermatologic means of or relating to the skin.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- determinable — able to be decided, fixed, or found out
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- 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.
- diagrammable — able to be diagrammed or representable by a diagram
- dialecticism — the influence of dialect
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
- diamond lane — a highway or street lane for buses and passenger vans marked with a large diamond shape on the pavement.
- diethylamide — (organic compound) The derivative of a compound formed by adding an amide group with two ethyl substituents, N(C2H5)2.
- diethylamine — (organic compound) The secondary amine (CH3CH2)2NH.
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- dilettantism — the practices or characteristics of a dilettante.
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- dipyridamole — a yellow crystalline powder, C 24 H 40 N 8 O 4 , used prophylactically for angina pectoris and in combination with other drugs to reduce thrombus formation.
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.