12-letter words containing r, e, m, d
- determinator — a person who or a thing that determines
- determinedly — resolute; staunch: the determined defenders of the Alamo.
- determinisms — Plural form of determinism.
- dethronement — to remove from a throne; depose.
- deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
- deuterostome — any member of the major group of animals defined by the fact that during early embryonic development the first opening to form becomes the anus of the animal. The opposite is protostome
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- diagrammable — able to be diagrammed or representable by a diagram
- diastereomer — either of a pair of stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- dimerization — (chemistry) Any chemical reaction in which two monomers react to form a dimer.
- 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.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disassembler — A program for converting machine code into a low-level symbolic language.
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discomforted — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- discomforter — One who causes discomfort.
- discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
- disconfirmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disconfirm.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- 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.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembarrass — to disentangle or extricate from something troublesome, embarrassing, or the like.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disembroiled — Simple past tense and past participle of disembroil.
- disempowered — Simple past tense and past participle of disempower.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
- disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- disinterment — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- dismembering — Present participle of dismember.
- 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.
- dispersement — Misspelling of disbursement.
- dispiritment — the state of being dispirited
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissenterism — the beliefs and practices of dissenters
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- dissymmetric — Asymmetric.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- distemperoid — resembling distemper.
- diverticulum — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- divertimento — an instrumental composition in several movements, light and diverting in character, similar to a serenade.
- 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.