12-letter words containing a, d, m
- conduct mark — (in school) a mark for behaviour
- contaminated — made impure by the addition of a harmful or undesirable substance
- contemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- coram judice — before a court having the authority to hear and decide (the case in question).
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- custodialism — of or relating to custody.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- dactinomycin — a cytotoxic polypeptide, C 62 H 86 N 12 O 16 , isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces parvullus, used in the treatment of certain cancers.
- dairy farmer — a farmer who has a herd producing milk
- damask steel — Damascus steel
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- damnableness — The state or quality of being damnable.
- damper pedal — a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.
- damselfishes — Plural form of damselfish.
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- darmstadtium — a synthetic radioactive element produced in small quantities by cold fusion in a linear accelerator. Symbol: Ds; atomic no: 110
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- de dolo malo — with evil intention; with intent to defraud.
- de-emphasize — to remove emphasis from
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- death camass — any liliaceous plant of the genus Zygadenus (or Zigadenus), of the western US, that is poisonous to livestock, esp sheep
- deathmatches — Plural form of deathmatch.
- decalcomania — the art or process of transferring a design from prepared paper onto another surface, such as china, glass, or paper
- decalcomanie — (dated) decalcomania.
- decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- decimalizing — Present participle of decimalize.
- declamations — Plural form of declamation.
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- deemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of deemphasize.
- deemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deemphasize.
- deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
- deformalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deformalize.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- deformed bar — a rod for reinforcing concrete, having surface irregularities, as transverse ridges, to improve the bond.
- defragmented — Simple past tense and past participle of defragment.
- defragmenter — (computing) That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.
- degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.