This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for DMRS design for DFT-s-OFDM with increased subcarrier spacing. A UE may receive an assignment to transmit on a set of RBs. The set of RBs may be contiguous within a carrier that includes greater than 110 RBs. The UE may transmit DMRS on each RE of one or more adjacent symbols of the set of RBs.