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12-letter words containing a, n, d, m, s

  • odontomatous — relating to an odontoma
  • old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
  • omnidistance — the distance between an omnirange station and a receiver.
  • oxidant smog — photochemical smog.
  • palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • palm islands — a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
  • pamperedness — the state of being pampered
  • phosphamidon — a systemic and contact insecticide, C 1 0 H 1 9 ClNO 5 P, used against beetles, aphids, mites, and other crop pests.
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
  • pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
  • pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
  • quadrumanous — four-handed; having all four feet adapted for use as hands, as monkeys.
  • re-admission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
  • readjustment — an act of readjusting or the state of being readjusted.
  • rhadamanthus — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
  • rhadamanthys — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
  • rose diamond — a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top
  • run commands — (operating system)   The expansion of the file name suffix, "rc", common to many Unix configuration files, e.g. .newsrc, .cshrc, .twmrc, elmrc, etc. Always abbreviated to /R C/ when spoken. Note, "rc" is not a typical filename extension as it doesn't start with a dot. The suffix "rc" derives from a script-creation utility in CTSS called "runcom".
  • salamandrian — a salamander of the order Batrachia
  • salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
  • samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
  • sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
  • sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • self-command — self-control.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semi-invalid — a person who is partially disabled or somewhat infirm
  • semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
  • semidarkness — partial darkness.
  • semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
  • shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert
  • slimming aid — food or food supplements that can help you lose weight
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • small-minded — selfish, petty, or narrow-minded.
  • smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
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