13-letter words containing m, i, d, r
- contemporized — Simple past tense and past participle of contemporize.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- copolymerized — Polymerized, along with another compound, to form a copolymer.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- corn marigold — an annual plant, Chrysanthemum segetum, with yellow daisy-like flower heads: a common weed of cultivated land: family Asteraceae (composites)
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
- crown molding — decorative ceiling trim
- dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
- daydreamingly — While daydreaming.
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
- decriminalize — When a criminal offence is decriminalized, the law changes so that it is no longer a criminal offence.
- deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
- defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
- defamiliarize — to make (something well-known or well-established) seem unfamiliar, strange, disconcerting, etc., as in order to reinterpret or subvert it
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- defragmenting — Present participle of defragment.
- dehumidifiers — Plural form of dehumidifier.
- delivery room — In a hospital, the delivery room is the room where women give birth to their babies.
- demand driven — A demand driven architecture/language performs computations when the result is required by some other computation. E.g. Imperial College's ALICE running HOPE. See also data flow, lazy evaluation, reduction.
- dematerialise — Alternative spelling of dematerialize.
- dematerialize — to cease to have material existence, as in science fiction or spiritualism
- demeritorious — a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency: If you receive four demerits during a term, you will be expelled from school.
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- demi-detourne — a turn in which the dancer on pointe or demi-pointe completes a half turn toward the back foot and lowers the heels, with the back foot finishing in front.
- demilitarized — Declared free of all military activity.
- demilitarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demilitarize.
- demineralized — From which all minerals have been removed.
- demineralizer — a substance or device that causes demineralization
- demineralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demineralize.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- demonstrating — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- demonstration — A demonstration is a march or gathering which people take part in to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- demultiplexer — a type of electronic circuit which receives a single input signal and selects one of multiple possible output routes to which to transmit the signal
- densitometers — Plural form of densitometer.
- densitometric — Of or pertaining to densitometry.
- depolymerized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolymerize.
- dermatologies — Plural form of dermatology.
- dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
- dermatotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- deromanticize — to remove the romantic, ideal, or heroic aura from.