12-letter words containing m, u, s
- customs shed — a large building in which customs officers carry out customs inspections
- custos morum — a custodian or guardian of morals; censor.
- cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
- cyclostomous — of or relating to a cyclostome
- cymotrichous — having wavy hair
- 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
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- dehumidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumidify.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- desmond tutu — a university degree graded 2:2 (second class lower bracket)
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- desquamative — tending to cause desquamation; characterized by desquamation
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- dessert menu — In a restaurant or café, the dessert menu is a list of the desserts that are available.
- desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- detumescence — the subsidence of a swelling, esp the return of a swollen organ, such as the penis, to the flaccid state
- deuterostome — any member of the major group of animals defined by the fact that during early embryonic development the first opening to form becomes the anus of the animal. The opposite is protostome
- diamond dust — pulverized diamonds, used as an abrasive.
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- diffusionism — the theory or principle that diffusion is the main force in cultural innovation and change.
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discommunity — a lack of community
- discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
- disguisement — Disguise (deceptive appearance).
- dissimulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dissimulate.
- dissimulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissimulate.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- 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.
- dockominiums — Plural form of dockominium.
- douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- dromaeosaurs — Plural form of dromaeosaur.
- duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
- 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.
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed
- 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
- effusiometer — an apparatus for determining rates of effusion of gases, usually used for measuring molecular weights
- eleemosynous — Describes a gift or donation made as an act of charity or almsgiving.
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois