12-letter words containing d, e, m, n
- 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.
- semicylinder — half of a cylinder divided lengthwise.
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- semifinished — partially or almost finished.
- shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- simpleminded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- 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
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- small-minded — selfish, petty, or narrow-minded.
- sober-minded — rational; sensible.
- 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.
- sound system — equipment for playing music
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stem-end rot — a disease of fruits characterized by discoloration, shriveling, and decay of the stem and adjacent parts of the fruit and caused by any of several fungi of the genera Diplodia and Phomopsis.
- stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
- 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
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- supermundane — above and beyond the nature or character of the worldly or terrestrial.
- supplemented — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
- 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.
- synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
- telemedicine — the diagnosis and treatment of patients in remote areas using medical information, as x-rays or television pictures, transmitted over long distances, especially by satellite.
- tenderometer — a device measuring the tenderness of peas
- the herdsman — the constellation Boötes
- the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
- 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
- thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
- thunderstorm — a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
- time-binding — the distinctively human attribute of preserving memories and records of experiences for the use of subsequent generations.
- time-honored — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- tmj syndrome — a condition attributed to tension in or faulty articulation of the temporomandibular joint, having a wide range of symptoms that include dizziness, ringing in the ears, and pain in the head, neck, and shoulders.
- tombstone ad — a boxed advertisement without artwork or illustrations, especially one announcing an issue of a stock or bond.
- tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
- transmundane — reaching beyond or existing outside the physical or visible world.
- tremendously — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
- trondhjemite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz, plagioclase feldspar, and a small amount of biotite.
- trudeaumania — obsessional enthusiasm for Pierre Trudeau
- turned comma — quotation mark.
- tyndall beam — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.