13-letter words containing s, i, m, o, r
- 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.
- disseminators — Plural form of disseminator.
- dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- dramatisation — Alternative spelling of dramatization.
- dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
- dressing room — a room for use in getting dressed, especially one for performers backstage in a theater, television studio, etc.
- dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
- drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- east timorese — of or relating to East Timor or its inhabitants
- electromerism — a type of tautomerism in which the isomers (electromers) differ in the distribution of charge in their molecules
- emigrationist — a person who promotes emigration
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- endometriosis — A condition resulting from the appearance of endometrial tissue outside the uterus and causing pelvic pain.
- endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
- epidermolysis — Loosening of the epidermis, with extensive blistering of the skin and mucous membranes, occurring either after injury, or as a spontaneous and potentially dangerous condition, particularly in children.
- esthesiometer — an instrument for measuring the sensitivity of the sense of touch, esp. one for testing how far apart two points pressed against the skin have to be for the points to be felt as separate
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- eurocommunism — the policies, doctrines, and practices of Communist Parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, esp those rejecting democratic centralism and favouring nonalignment with the Soviet Union and China
- expressionism — A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
- extemporising — Present participle of extemporise.
- exterminators — Plural form of exterminator.
- extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
- fantasmagoria — phantasmagoria.
- fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
- fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
- fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
- fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
- fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
- filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
- fisher of men — an evangelist
- flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
- force a smile — to make oneself smile
- formalisation — Alternative spelling of formalization.
- formicivorous — ant-eating.
- formularising — Present participle of formularise.