12-letter words containing r, a, m, s, e
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembarrass — to disentangle or extricate from something troublesome, embarrassing, or the like.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- 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.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- dram refresh — (storage) The operation which cycles through a DRAM reading each row and writing it back again to compensate for the gradual leakage of charge from the capacitors which store the data. This may be done by the CPU but is often done by a dedicated memory controller.
- 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.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- drillmasters — Plural form of drillmaster.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- dromaeosaurs — Plural form of dromaeosaur.
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- earl marshal — an officer of the English peerage who presides over the College of Heralds and organizes royal processions and other important ceremonies
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
- ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- eleemosynary — Of, relating to, or dependent on charity; charitable.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- embarassment — Misspelling of embarrassment.
- embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
- emblazonries — Plural form of emblazonry.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- emerald isle — Ireland
- empire state — state of New York
- enamoredness — Quality of being enamored; love; infatuation.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- energy-smart — using electrical power in an efficient or economical way
- enlargements — Plural form of enlargement.
- enterostomal — relating to enterostomy
- enumerations — Plural form of enumeration.
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- ergastoplasm — endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- estrangement — The fact of no longer being on friendly terms or part of a social group.
- examinership — the office or function of an examiner
- expatriatism — The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one.
- express mail — mail delivered quicker than normal mail
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
- familiarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of familiarize.