12-letter words containing r, i, s, e, n
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- dispersement — Misspelling of disbursement.
- dispiritment — the state of being dispirited
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disregarding — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissenterish — having a part of the character or quality of a dissenter
- dissenterism — the beliefs and practices of dissenters
- dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
- dog's dinner — mess, failure
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- 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.
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- earsplitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
- east african — of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants
- easterliness — The state of being easterly.
- eastern rite — the rite of an Eastern church, usually observed in the national language of the country where the church is located.
- 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.
- econometrics — the application of statistical and mathematical techniques in solving problems as well as in testing and demonstrating theories.
- econometrist — An econometrician.
- ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
- effervescing — Present participle of effervesce.
- efflorescing — Present participle of effloresce.
- effronteries — Plural form of effrontery.
- egalitarians — Plural form of egalitarian.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- 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
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- electioneers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electioneer.