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12-letter words containing o, r, i

  • divorce mill — a divorce court, especially such a court in a state or country that does not impose difficult requirements, as a long period of residence or humiliating grounds, on those who wish to dissolve their marriage.
  • do credit to — present or represent honourably
  • do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
  • doctrinarian — A doctrinaire.
  • doctrination — (nonstandard) indoctrination.
  • docudramatic — Of or relating to docudrama.
  • dog's dinner — mess, failure
  • doloriferous — causing pain or sadness, dolorific
  • dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
  • dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
  • domino paper — a marbleized or figured decorative paper, used for wallpaper, end papers, etc., printed from wood blocks and colored by hand.
  • donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
  • door curtain — a curtain that fills a doorway
  • doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
  • dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
  • dorothea dix — Dorothea Lynde [lind] /lɪnd/ (Show IPA), (Dorothy) 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.
  • dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
  • dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
  • dosing strip — (in New Zealand) an area set aside for treating dogs suspected of having hydatid disease
  • double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
  • double first — a first in two subjects.
  • dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
  • draconically — (often lowercase) Draconian.
  • dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
  • drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
  • drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
  • dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
  • drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
  • drill collar — A drill collar is a thick tubular piece at the bottom of a drillpipe, which concentrates the weight on the rotating drill bit.
  • drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
  • driving iron — Golf. a club with a long shaft and an iron head the face of which has almost no slope, for hitting long, low drives.
  • drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
  • drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
  • drop forging — a product made by drop-forging
  • drop initial — inset initial.
  • drop shipper — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
  • drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
  • dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
  • dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
  • ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
  • dumortierite — a mineral, aluminum borosilicate.
  • duty officer — In the police or armed forces, a duty officer is an officer who is on duty at a particular time.
  • dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
  • e-thrombosis — a clot in the bloodstream caused by long periods spent being physically inactive at a computer
  • earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
  • east detroit — a city in SE Michigan.
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