12-letter words containing d, a, m, e, h, o
- holiday home — a home that people own in order to holiday in and that is in a different location to the home they usually live in
- holidaymaker — vacationer.
- home address — the address of one's house or flat
- home and dry — If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
- homesteaders — Plural form of homesteader.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- hope diamond — a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- hydrothermal — noting or pertaining to the action of hot, aqueous solutions or gases within or on the surface of the earth.
- immethodical — not methodical; without method or system.
- indomethacin — a substance, C 19 H 16 ClNO 4 , with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and analgesic properties: used in the treatment of certain kinds of arthritis and gout.
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- machicolated — Having machicolations.
- machine code — (language) The representation of a computer program that is read and interpreted by the computer hardware (rather than by some other machine code program). A program in machine code consists of a sequence of "instructions" (possibly interspersed with data). An instruction is a binary string, (often written as one or more octal, decimal or hexadecimal numbers). Instructions may be all the same size (e.g. one 32-bit word for many modern RISC microprocessors) or of different sizes, in which case the size of the instruction is determined from the first word (e.g. Motorola 68000) or byte (e.g. Inmos transputer). The collection of all possible instructions for a particular computer is known as its "instruction set". Each instruction typically causes the Central Processing Unit to perform some fairly simple operation like loading a value from memory into a register or adding the numbers in two registers. An instruction consists of an op code and zero or more operands. Different processors have different instruction sets - the collection of possible operations they can perform. Execution of machine code may either be hard-wired into the central processing unit or it may be controlled by microcode. The basic execution cycle consists of fetching the next instruction from main memory, decoding it (determining which action the operation code specifies and the location of any arguments) and executing it by opening various gates (e.g. to allow data to flow from main memory into a CPU register) and enabling functional units (e.g. signalling to the ALU to perform an addition). Humans almost never write programs directly in machine code. Instead, they use programming languages. The simplest kind of programming language is assembly language which usually has a one-to-one correspondence with the resulting machine code instructions but allows the use of mnemonics (ASCII strings) for the "op codes" (the part of the instruction which encodes the basic type of operation to perform) and names for locations in the program (branch labels) and for variables and constants. Other languages are either translated by a compiler into machine code or executed by an interpreter
- 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.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- medal-holder — a person who has won a medal
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- method actor — actor who follows the Method
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- mohammed ali — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- mohenjo-daro — an archaeological site in Pakistan, near the Indus River: six successive ancient cities were built here.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- monohydrates — Plural form of monohydrate.
- mother's day — a day, usually the second Sunday in May, set aside in honor of mothers.
- mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- muttonheaded — a slow-witted, foolish, or stupid person; dolt.
- no harm done — If you say that there is no harm done, you are telling someone not to worry about something that has happened because it has not caused any serious injury or damage.
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
- pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- rhodomontade — rodomontade
- rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
- smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- 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
- the old adam — the evil supposedly inherent in human nature
- thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.