11-letter words containing m, e, r
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- deuterogamy — a marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse
- deuteronomy — the fifth book of the Old Testament, containing a second statement of the Mosaic Law
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- diamorphine — heroin.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- diopsimeter — an instrument for measuring the field of vision.
- dioptometer — an instrument for measuring the refraction of the eye.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- dirt farmer — a farmer who works on the soil, distinguished from one who operates a farm with hired hands or tenants.
- dirty money — money obtained by immoral means
- disarmament — the act or an instance of disarming.
- disc camera — a camera that accepts a film cartridge in the form of a rotatable disc with film frames mounted around the outer edge.
- discardment — the act or process of discarding
- discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
- disclaimers — Plural form of disclaimer.
- disembarked — Simple past tense and past participle of disembark.
- disembarkee — One who disembarks from a vessel such as an airplane or ship.
- disembitter — to remove (an attitude of) bitterness
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
- disempowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disempower.
- disenamored — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disinformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disinform.
- dismembered — Simple past tense and past participle of dismember.
- disportment — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disremember — to fail to remember; forget.
- dissymmetry — absence or lack of symmetry.
- distempered — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- dive bomber — an airplane of the fighter-bomber type that drops its bombs while diving at the enemy.
- divergement — the act of diverging, divergence
- diversiform — differing in form; of various forms.
- divorcement — divorce; separation.
- diytterbium — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two ytterbium atoms in a molecule.
- doc martens — a brand of lace-up boots with thick lightweight resistant soles
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- dolorimeter — an instrument used in dolorimetry.
- dolorimetry — a technique for measuring the sensitivity to pain produced by heat rays focused on an area of skin and recorded in dols.
- domineering — inclined to rule arbitrarily or despotically; overbearing; tyrannical: domineering parents.
- donor sperm — sperm which has been voluntarily given for use in the insemination of another person
- dorian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from D to D.
- dormitories — Plural form of dormitory.
- double room — double (def 13).
- down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
- draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.