12-letter words containing m, r, s, a
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- cyma reversa — a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- darmstadtium — a synthetic radioactive element produced in small quantities by cold fusion in a linear accelerator. Symbol: Ds; atomic no: 110
- decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demilitarise — (British) alternative spelling of demilitarize.
- democratised — Simple past tense and past participle of democratise.
- democratiser — one who democratises
- democratizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of democratize.
- demographers — Plural form of demographer.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- 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.
- denominators — Plural form of denominator.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- diastereomer — either of a pair of stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other.
- diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disassembler — A program for converting machine code into a low-level symbolic language.
- 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.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembarrass — to disentangle or extricate from something troublesome, embarrassing, or the like.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- disopyramide — a substance, C 21 H 29 N 3 O, used in its phosphate form in the symptomatic and prophylactic treatment of certain cardiac arrhythmias.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissimilarly — In a dissimilar way; differently.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- 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].
- dram refresh — (storage) The operation which cycles through a DRAM reading each row and writing it back again to compensate for the gradual leakage of charge from the capacitors which store the data. This may be done by the CPU but is often done by a dedicated memory controller.