12-letter words containing d, e, m, n
- 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.
- predetermine — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
- prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- pseudonymous — bearing a false or fictitious name.
- pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
- pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
- pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- pyrazinamide — a substance, C 5 H 5 N 3 O, used in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
- quadriennium — quadrennium.
- radioelement — a radioactive element.
- random error — an error that has a random distribution and can be attributed to chance.
- 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.
- reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
- reading room — a room set aside for reading, as in a library or club.
- readjustment — an act of readjusting or the state of being readjusted.
- readmittance — the act or process of admitting someone or something again
- rear-mounted — (of an engine, etc) fitted at the back of a vehicle
- recommending — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
- redemptioner — an emigrant from Europe to America who obtained passage by becoming an indentured servant for a specified period of time.
- redeployment — to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
- redetermined — to settle or decide (a dispute, question, etc.) by an authoritative or conclusive decision.
- redoublement — the act of redoubling
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reindictment — an act of indicting.
- remainderman — a person who owns a remainder.
- reprimanding — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- returned man — a member of the armed forces discharged in Canada after service overseas.
- rhodomontade — rodomontade
- rhombohedron — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
- road manager — The road manager of someone such as a singer or sports player is the person who organizes their travel and other arrangements during a tour.
- rodomontader — a person who boasts or brags
- roman candle — a firework consisting of a tube that sends out a shower of sparks and a succession of balls of fire.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- 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.
- 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
- second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment