12-letter words containing m, e, n, o, r
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- craniometric — the science of measuring skulls, chiefly to determine their characteristic relationship to sex, body type, or genetic population.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- criminogenic — causing or promoting crime
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- declinometer — an instrument for measuring magnetic declination
- deflowerment — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demiromantic — Lb neologism Romantically attracted to people only after forming deep emotional bonds.
- demo version — 1. An early, barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration purposes as long as the operator uses *exactly* the right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions. 2. A special version of a finished program (frequently with some features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to the user for enticement purposes. See crippleware.
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- demonstrable — A demonstrable fact or quality can be shown to be true or to exist.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- demonstrated — Simple past tense and past participle of demonstrate.
- demonstrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demonstrate.
- demonstrator — Demonstrators are people who are marching or gathering somewhere to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- 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.
- denominators — Plural form of denominator.
- denormalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denormalize.
- densitometer — an instrument for measuring the optical density of a material by directing a beam of light onto the specimen and measuring its transmission or reflection
- densitometry — Photography. an instrument for measuring the density of negatives.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- determinator — a person who or a thing that determines
- dethronement — to remove from a throne; depose.
- deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
- dimerization — (chemistry) Any chemical reaction in which two monomers react to form a dimer.
- dinner money — money given to school children to buy dinner at school
- disconfirmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disconfirm.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- 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.
- divertimento — an instrumental composition in several movements, light and diverting in character, similar to a serenade.