12-letter words containing m, i, s, t, r
- discomforter — One who causes discomfort.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discriminant — a relatively simple expression that determines some of the properties, as the nature of the roots, of a given equation or function.
- 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.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disinterment — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- dispersement — Misspelling of disbursement.
- dispiritment — the state of being dispirited
- 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.
- dissenterism — the beliefs and practices of dissenters
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- dissymmetric — Asymmetric.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- distemperoid — resembling distemper.
- distributism — a socioeconomic theory and system advocating widespread ownership of private property and the means of production: based on late 19th-century Catholic teachings on economic and social justice.
- district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- drillmasters — Plural form of drillmaster.
- dusty miller — Botany. any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence. rose campion.
- dysrhythmias — Plural form of dysrhythmia.
- e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
- earth summit — a summit conference of 100 or more earth leaders debating global environmental and development issues, specifically the summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the term is also applied e.g. to a projected similar event in 2012
- 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
- ecoterrorism — Violence carried out to further environmentalist ends.
- effusiometer — an apparatus for determining rates of effusion of gases, usually used for measuring molecular weights
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- empire state — state of New York
- endometritis — Inflammation of the endometrium.
- enshrinement — (uncountable) The state of being enshrined.
- enumerations — Plural form of enumeration.
- environments — Plural form of environment.
- equisetiform — having the form of equisetum
- eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
- expatriatism — The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one.
- extemporised — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporise.
- extemporizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extemporize.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- fibromatosis — (pathology) The presence of multiple fibromas.
- first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
- first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.