13-letter words containing r, o, m, i
- custom-tailor — to modify to fit a specific use or need; tailor-make.
- customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
- deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- delivery room — In a hospital, the delivery room is the room where women give birth to their babies.
- demeritorious — a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency: If you receive four demerits during a term, you will be expelled from school.
- demi-detourne — a turn in which the dancer on pointe or demi-pointe completes a half turn toward the back foot and lowers the heels, with the back foot finishing in front.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- demonstrating — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- demonstration — A demonstration is a march or gathering which people take part in to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- densitometers — Plural form of densitometer.
- densitometric — Of or pertaining to densitometry.
- depolymerized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolymerize.
- dermatologies — Plural form of dermatology.
- dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
- dermatotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- deromanticize — to remove the romantic, ideal, or heroic aura from.
- determination — Determination is the quality that you show when you have decided to do something and you will not let anything stop you.
- determinators — determiner (def 1).
- deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- diamond drill — a diamond-tipped drill
- diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- diffeomorphic — (mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.
- diffractogram — An image produced by a diffractometer.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- direct method — a technique of foreign-language teaching in which only the target language is used, little instruction is given concerning formal rules of grammar, and language use is often elicited in situational contexts.
- direct motion — the movement of a celestial body (as seen from the earth) from east to west across the sky
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconfirming — Not confirming.
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- discordianism — (recreation) /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- disenrollment — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.