12-letter words containing d, e, r, m, a
- 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.
- 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.
- pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
- pyramid peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,018 feet (4276 meters).
- pyrazinamide — a substance, C 5 H 5 N 3 O, used in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- quadriennium — quadrennium.
- racemic acid — an isomeric modification of tartaric acid that is sometimes found in the juice of grapes in conjunction with the common dextrorotatory form and is optically inactive but can be separated into the two usual isomeric forms, dextrorotatory and levorotatory.
- radioelement — a radioactive element.
- radiomimetic — (of drugs) producing effects similar to those produced by X-rays
- rammed earth — a mixture of sand, loam, clay, and other ingredients rammed hard within forms as a building material.
- 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 admiral — U.S. Navy, Coast Guard. a commissioned officer next in rank below a vice-admiral.
- rear-mounted — (of an engine, etc) fitted at the back of a vehicle
- 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.
- 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.
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- rhodomontade — rodomontade
- rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- 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.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
- serra do mar — a mountain range on the SE coast of Brazil. Highest point, 7420 feet (2262 meters).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.