12-letter words containing a, n, d, m, s
- sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
- standpattism — belief in or the practice of resisting or refusing to accept change, especially in politics.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
- subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- supermundane — above and beyond the nature or character of the worldly or terrestrial.
- supramundane — transcending the world
- surinam toad — a South American aquatic frog, Pipa pipa, the female of which carries the eggs and tadpoles in small depressions on its back.
- 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.
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
- the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
- the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
- thymus gland — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- tombstone ad — a boxed advertisement without artwork or illustrations, especially one announcing an issue of a stock or bond.
- traducianism — the doctrine that the human soul is propagated along with the body. Compare creationism (def 3).
- transmundane — reaching beyond or existing outside the physical or visible world.
- umnak island — a mountainous island in SW Alaska, in the Fox Islands of the E central Aleutian Islands.
- unaccustomed — not accustomed or habituated: to be unaccustomed to hardships.
- unadmonished — not admonished, counselled, or warned
- understratum — a substratum.
- undismantled — not dismantled or disassembled; complete, in one piece
- unemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- unhandsomely — unattractively
- unmarshalled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- unseminaried — not having a seminary education
- unstimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- unsublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- untransmuted — not transmuted; that has not been transmuted or transformed
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.