12-letter words containing a, d, m, w
- amboina wood — the hard, heavy wood of a tree, Pterocarpus indicus, of southern Asia, having a curly or mottled grain.
- amboyna wood — the mottled, curled wood of an Asiatic, leguminous tree (Pterocarpus indicus), used in making furniture
- amdahl's law — (parallel) (Named after Gene Amdahl) If F is the fraction of a calculation that is sequential, and (1-F) is the fraction that can be parallelised, then the maximum speedup that can be achieved by using P processors is 1/(F+(1-F)/P).
- backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
- backwoodsman — Backwoodsmen are people, especially politicians, who like the old ways of doing things, or who are involved in an organization at a local level.
- backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
- bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
- clam chowder — chowder containing clams
- come forward — If someone comes forward, they offer to do something or to give some information in response to a request for help.
- deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
- dismal swamp — a swamp in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina. About 30 miles (48 km) long; about 600 sq. mi. (1500 sq. km).
- doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
- dwarf mallow — cheese1 (def 5).
- false mildew — downy mildew (def 1).
- false-mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- gordian worm — nematomorph.
- hand-me-down — an article of clothing passed on to another person after being used, outgrown, etc.: The younger children wore the hand-me-downs of the older ones.
- james edward — Stuart, James Francis Edward.
- klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- machine word — word (def 10).
- machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- make headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
- māori warden — a person appointed to exercise advisory and minor disciplinary powers in Māori communities
- meadow grass — any grass of the genus Poa, especially P. pratensis, the Kentucky bluegrass.
- meadow mouse — any of numerous short-tailed rodents of the genus Microtus and allied genera, chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
- meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
- medal-winner — a person who has won a medal or medals
- medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
- mendel's law — law of segregation.
- mermaid weed — any of several North American, aquatic plants of the genus Proserpinaca, having pinnately dissected leaves either above or below the water.
- merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- narrowminded — Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
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