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13-letter words containing a, d, r, m

  • edmund androsSir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • electrodermal — Of or relating to measurement of the electrical conductivity of the skin, especially as an indicator of someone’s emotional responses.
  • embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
  • enantiodromia — (psychiatry, according to Carl Jung) The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
  • enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
  • enchondromata — Plural form of enchondroma.
  • endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
  • family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
  • family doctor — a general practitioner.
  • family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
  • feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
  • female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
  • formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
  • frame of mind — mental state
  • france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
  • freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • gerrymandered — Simple past tense and past participle of gerrymander.
  • gerrymanderer — a person who gerrymanders
  • glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • gourmandizing — Present participle of gourmandize.
  • graham island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, in W British Columbia, Canada: largest and northernmost of the Queen Charlotte Islands. 2485 sq. mi. (6436 sq. km).
  • gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
  • grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
  • grand marnier — a French cognac-based liqueur with an orange flavour
  • grand marshal — marshal (def 8).
  • grand old man — a highly respected, usually elderly man who has been a major or the most important figure in a specific field for many years.
  • grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
  • grandma mosesAnna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
  • grandmotherly — of or characteristic of a grandmother.
  • gynandromorph — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • haemodialyzer — a piece of equipment used in haemodialysis to screen the blood to remove unwanted substances
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • hammond organ — an electric organ with two keyboards, electronic tone generation, and a wide variety of tone colours: invented in 1934
  • hampton roads — a channel in SE Virginia between the mouth of the James River and Chesapeake Bay: battle between the Monitor and the Virginia 1862.
  • handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
  • headmistressy — typical of the duties and behaviour of a headmistress
  • hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
  • herbal remedy — a medical treatment made with herbs
  • hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
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