12-letter words containing m, e, n, s, t
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- dessert menu — In a restaurant or café, the dessert menu is a list of the desserts that are available.
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- determinisms — Plural form of determinism.
- detumescence — the subsidence of a swelling, esp the return of a swollen organ, such as the penis, to the flaccid state
- developments — Plural form of development.
- 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
- 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.
- diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disamenities — Plural form of disamenity.
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- 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.
- disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
- disesteeming — Present participle of disesteem.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disguisement — Disguise (deceptive appearance).
- dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- disinterment — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- dispensement — Dispensation (handing out or distribution).
- dispersement — Misspelling of disbursement.
- dispiritment — the state of being dispirited
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- 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.
- dissenterism — the beliefs and practices of dissenters
- dissepiments — Plural form of dissepiment.
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- don't ask me — You reply 'don't ask me' when you do not know the answer to a question, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that you have been asked.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- east germany — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- 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.
- econometrics — the application of statistical and mathematical techniques in solving problems as well as in testing and demonstrating theories.
- econometrist — An econometrician.
- ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
- ectosymbiont — (biology) A partner in a symbiotic relationship that remains on the surface of its host or occupies a body cavity.
- eliminations — Plural form of elimination.
- emanationism — A religious concept that everything is derived from emanations from a god.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.