12-letter words containing m, y, r
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
- cylindriform — having the form or shape of a cylinder
- cyma reversa — a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.
- cymotrichous — having wavy hair
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- dairy farmer — a farmer who has a herd producing milk
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- densitometry — Photography. an instrument for measuring the density of negatives.
- depolymerize — to break (a polymer) into constituent monomers or (of a polymer) to decompose in this way
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- determinedly — resolute; staunch: the determined defenders of the Alamo.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
- dinner money — money given to school children to buy dinner at school
- dipyridamole — a yellow crystalline powder, C 24 H 40 N 8 O 4 , used prophylactically for angina pectoris and in combination with other drugs to reduce thrombus formation.
- dirty-minded — tending to have vulgar, obscene, or lewd thoughts, interpretations, etc.
- 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.
- dissimilarly — In a dissimilar way; differently.
- dissymmetric — Asymmetric.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- dramatically — of or relating to the drama.
- dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
- duple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of disyllabic feet.
- 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.
- duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
- dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- dysrhythmias — Plural form of dysrhythmia.
- early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
- east germany — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- eleemosynary — Of, relating to, or dependent on charity; charitable.
- elementarily — In an elementary way.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument