12-letter words containing d, a, m, s, e, l
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- nasal demons — Recognised shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behaviour of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked "When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose" (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to "nasal demons", which quickly became established.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
- 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.
- salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
- 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.
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- self-command — self-control.
- self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
- semi-invalid — a person who is partially disabled or somewhat infirm
- shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- skelmersdale — a town in NW England, in Lancashire: designated a new town in 1962. Pop: 39 279 (2001)
- sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
- slim disease — a form of AIDS common in Africa, marked by emaciation and fever.
- 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
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- small-minded — selfish, petty, or narrow-minded.
- social media — websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts: Many businesses are utilizing social media to generate sales.
- stamp dealer — someone who buys and sells postage stamps (to collectors)
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- 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
- 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.
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- 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
- undismantled — not dismantled or disassembled; complete, in one piece
- unhandsomely — unattractively
- unmarshalled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- 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.
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.