12-letter words containing n, i, t, r, a, m
- comportation — (obsolete) The act of bringing together.
- compurgation — (formerly) a method of trial whereby a defendant might be acquitted if a sufficient number of persons swore to his innocence
- concremation — the cremation of multiple things or people at the same time, esp suttee
- confirmation — the act of confirming
- confirmative — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- confirmatory — confirming or tending to confirm
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- conformation — the general shape or outline of an object; configuration
- conformative — (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
- conservatism — Conservatism is a political philosophy which believes that if changes need to be made to society, they should be made gradually. You can also refer to the political beliefs of a conservative party in a particular country as Conservatism.
- contaminator — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- conterminant — enclosed within a common boundary
- conterminate — conterminous
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- craniometric — the science of measuring skulls, chiefly to determine their characteristic relationship to sex, body type, or genetic population.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- criminations — Plural form of crimination.
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curtain time — the time at which a play or other performance is scheduled to begin.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- degerminated — degerm (def 2).
- demagnetizer — Any device (often a furnace) that is used to remove magnetization.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demiromantic — Lb neologism Romantically attracted to people only after forming deep emotional bonds.
- denominators — Plural form of denominator.
- determinable — able to be decided, fixed, or found out
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinated — having defined limits; definite.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- determinator — a person who or a thing that determines
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- dimerization — (chemistry) Any chemical reaction in which two monomers react to form a dimer.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- 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.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- draft animal — an animal used for pulling heavy loads.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
- 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.