12-letter words containing r, a, i, n, o
- disorganised — Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
- disorganized — functioning without adequate order, systemization, or planning; uncoordinated: a woefully disorganized enterprise.
- disorientate — to disorient.
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
- distractions — Plural form of distraction.
- divarication — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- divinatorial — of or related to divination
- diving board — a springboard.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- doctrinarian — A doctrinaire.
- doctrination — (nonstandard) indoctrination.
- 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
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- 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.
- drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
- drop initial — inset initial.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- electronical — (rare) electronic.
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- emargination — A notch (or series of notches) in a margin.
- emblazonries — Plural form of emblazonry.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- emigrational — Relating to emigration.
- enantiomeric — Of or pertaining to an enantiomer or the relation between enantiomers.
- enantiomorph — Each of two crystalline or other geometric forms that are mirror images of each other.
- enantiotropy — the possibility for stable polymorphs to exist in different states on either side of a transition-point temperature
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.