12-letter words containing d, e, m, a, s
- namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- 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.
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- omnidistance — the distance between an omnirange station and a receiver.
- otitis media — inflammation of the middle ear, characterized by pain, dizziness, and impaired hearing.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- pamperedness — the state of being pampered
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
- 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.
- preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- 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.
- pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- 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.
- reduced mass — a quantity obtained when one particle is moving about another, larger particle that is also moving, equivalent to the mass of the smaller particle, were the larger particle not moving, and equal to the quotient of the product of the two masses divided by their sum.
- reemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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-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.
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- semidetached — partly detached.
- semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- serra do mar — a mountain range on the SE coast of Brazil. Highest point, 7420 feet (2262 meters).
- shamefacedly — modest or bashful.