10-letter words containing d, e, m, i, r
- semidesert — an extremely dry area characterized by sparse vegetation.
- semidrying — not drying completely
- semifreddo — a partially frozen Italian dessert similar to ice cream
- semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
- sidestream — (of cigarette smoke) inhaled by passive smokers
- simmer dim — the night-long twilight found in the Northern Isles around midsummer
- sir edmund — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
- smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
- smaragdite — a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.
- smartdrive — (storage, product) A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
- smoldering — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- spermicide — a sperm-killing agent, especially a commercial birth-control preparation, usually a cream or jelly.
- spermidine — a biogenic polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from putrescine, occurring widely in nature and first identified in semen.
- stadimeter — an instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.
- stemwinder — a stemwinding watch.
- streamside — the land on the sides of a stream.
- stromateid — any of numerous small marine fishes of the family Stromateidae, having a laterally compressed body and an expanded muscular esophagus, often lined with teeth.
- summarised — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- summerised — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- summerized — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- summertide — summer time
- swimfeeder — a device containing bait, attached to the line to ensure the gradual baiting of the swim from under the surface
- taxidermic — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
- tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
- third mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the second mate.
- timberhead — the top end of a timber, rising above the deck and serving for belaying ropes.
- timberland — land covered with timber-producing forests.
- timberyard — an establishment where timber and sometimes other building materials are stored or sold
- timbrelled — sung to a timbrel's sound
- time draft — a draft payable within a specified number of days after it is presented.
- tomeraider — (application, file format) A cross-platform reference and e-book reader program and file format. TomeRaider files are highly compressed and cross-referenced. The reader displays the text and can follow the hypertext links embedded in the text.
- tribromide — a bromide containing three atoms of bromine.
- tweedsmuir — Baron, Buchan, John.
- unaffirmed — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- undermined — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
- undertimed — (of a photograph) underexposed
- undreaming — not dreaming; not having dreams
- unimpaired — weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.
- unimparted — not communicated (to another person)
- unimplored — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
- unimproved — not developed to full potential, as resources or the mind.
- uninformed — having or prepared with information or knowledge; apprised: an informed audience that asked intelligent questions.
- unmortised — not mortised
- unpromised — not engaged or promised in marriage
- unremedied — not remedied, set right, or corrected
- unremitted — not remitted, as a debt.
- unsmirched — to discolor or soil; spot or smudge with or as with soot, dust, dirt, etc.
- unsurmised — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
- untimbered — (of land) not timbered or wooded; not covered in forest