12-letter words containing r, m, e
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curtain time — the time at which a play or other performance is scheduled to begin.
- cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
- custom-order — to obtain by special or individual order: These wide doors have to be custom-ordered.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
- cyma reversa — a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- dairy farmer — a farmer who has a herd producing milk
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- damper pedal — a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- decipherment — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- declinometer — an instrument for measuring magnetic declination
- decompressed — Simple past tense and past participle of decompress.
- decompresses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decompress.
- decompressor — a device for lowering motor engine compression
- deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
- deflowerment — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- deformalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deformalize.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- deformed bar — a rod for reinforcing concrete, having surface irregularities, as transverse ridges, to improve the bond.
- defragmented — Simple past tense and past participle of defragment.
- defragmenter — (computing) That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.
- degerminated — degerm (def 2).
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- dehumidifier — A dehumidifier is a machine that is used to reduce the amount of moisture in the air.
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- demagnetizer — Any device (often a furnace) that is used to remove magnetization.
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demilitarise — (British) alternative spelling of demilitarize.
- demilitarize — To demilitarize an area means to ensure that all military forces are removed from it.
- demineralize — to remove dissolved salts from (a liquid, esp water)
- demiromantic — Lb neologism Romantically attracted to people only after forming deep emotional bonds.
- demo version — 1. An early, barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration purposes as long as the operator uses *exactly* the right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions. 2. A special version of a finished program (frequently with some features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to the user for enticement purposes. See crippleware.
- democratical — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- democratised — Simple past tense and past participle of democratise.
- democratiser — one who democratises
- democratized — Simple past tense and past participle of democratize.
- democratizer — a person or thing that democratizes
- democratizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of democratize.