12-letter words containing s, e, r, a, m
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- conservatism — Conservatism is a political philosophy which believes that if changes need to be made to society, they should be made gradually. You can also refer to the political beliefs of a conservative party in a particular country as Conservatism.
- corporealism — materialism
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- coxey's army — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- crash helmet — A crash helmet is a helmet that motorcyclists wear in order to protect their heads if they have an accident.
- crassamentum — a blood clot
- cream cheese — Cream cheese is a very rich, soft white cheese.
- cream sherry — a full-bodied sweet sherry
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
- criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
- criminalness — (rare, dated) The state or quality of being criminal.
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- cyma reversa — a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.
- decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- demilitarise — (British) alternative spelling of demilitarize.
- democratised — Simple past tense and past participle of democratise.
- democratiser — one who democratises
- democratizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of democratize.
- demographers — Plural form of demographer.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demonstrable — A demonstrable fact or quality can be shown to be true or to exist.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- demonstrated — Simple past tense and past participle of demonstrate.
- demonstrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demonstrate.
- demonstrator — Demonstrators are people who are marching or gathering somewhere to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- demoralising — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- denominators — Plural form of denominator.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- determinants — Plural form of determinant.
- determinates — having defined limits; definite.
- 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.
- diastereomer — either of a pair of stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other.
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- disassembler — A program for converting machine code into a low-level symbolic language.
- 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.