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

  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
  • sierra madre — a mountain range extending from S Wyoming into N Colorado.
  • 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.
  • smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
  • 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.
  • sodium amide — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, flammable powder, NaNH 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium cyanide and in organic synthesis.
  • 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.
  • speed camera — device that detects speeding traffic
  • spermaticide — spermicide.
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
  • stamp dealer — someone who buys and sells postage stamps (to collectors)
  • stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
  • steam-driven — powered by steam
  • steam-heated — heated by steam.
  • 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
  • supermundane — above and beyond the nature or character of the worldly or terrestrial.
  • superstardom — a person, as a performer or athlete, who enjoys wide recognition, is esteemed for exceptional talent, and is eagerly sought after for his or her services.
  • supramundane — transcending the world
  • 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.
  • sweet dreams — sleep well
  • swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
  • systematized — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
  • 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
  • thermostated — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
  • 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.
  • transmundane — reaching beyond or existing outside the physical or visible world.
  • tryparsamide — a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.
  • 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.
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