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12-letter words containing a, d, i, m, e, o

  • domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • domestically — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
  • domesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • domesticates — Plural form of domesticate.
  • domiciliated — to domicile.
  • dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
  • domino paper — a marbleized or figured decorative paper, used for wallpaper, end papers, etc., printed from wood blocks and colored by hand.
  • dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
  • drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
  • dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
  • dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
  • echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
  • endometrioma — An ovarian cyst caused by endometriosis.
  • endothelioma — Any of various mostly benign neoplasms derived from the endothelium of blood vessels or lymph channels.
  • fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
  • formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
  • gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
  • gormandizers — gourmandise1 .
  • gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
  • haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
  • haemorrhoids — Plural form of haemorrhoid.
  • haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
  • hamming code — (algorithm)   Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
  • hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
  • hemodialyses — Plural form of hemodialysis.
  • hemodialysis — dialysis of the blood, especially with an artificial kidney, for the removal of waste products.
  • hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
  • hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
  • hemorrhoidal — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
  • heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
  • holiday home — a home that people own in order to holiday in and that is in a different location to the home they usually live in
  • holidaymaker — vacationer.
  • homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
  • hope diamond — a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
  • iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
  • immethodical — not methodical; without method or system.
  • immoderately — In an immoderate manner.
  • immoderation — lack of moderation.
  • immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
  • immortalized — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
  • impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
  • imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
  • impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
  • imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
  • import trade — goods, services and products brought into a country and which were bought from another country
  • indomethacin — a substance, C 19 H 16 ClNO 4 , with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and analgesic properties: used in the treatment of certain kinds of arthritis and gout.
  • informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
  • isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
  • jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
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