13-letter words containing d, e, r, m, a
- armstand dive — a dive starting from a handstand at the end of a springboard or a platform with the diver's back to the water.
- attested form — a linguistic form that can be shown to be in use or in written records
- audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
- baal merodach — Marduk.
- band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
- bastard amber — a color of gelatin commonly used in stage lighting, similar to light amber but having a pinkish cast.
- beat the drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- bedroom farce — a light comedy about sexual relationships
- bermuda grass — a widely distributed grass, Cynodon dactylon, with wiry creeping rootstocks and several purplish spikes of flowers arising from a single point: used for lawns, pasturage, binding sand dunes, etc
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- board measure — a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
- bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
- brand manager — the person responsible for the marketing of a particular brand
- broad-brimmed — (of a hat) having a broad brim
- bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
- bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
- camera lucida — an instrument attached to a microscope, etc to enable an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface to facilitate the sketching of the image
- candid camera — a small camera that may be used to take informal photographs of people, usually without their knowledge
- cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
- cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- ceramic oxide — a compound of oxygen with nonorganic material: recently discovered to act as a high-temperature superconductor
- charmed quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 1.0 to 1.6 GeV/c2, a positive charge that is 2⁄3 the charge of an electron, +1 charm, and zero strangeness
- chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
- christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- ciudad madero — city in Tamaulipas state, EC Mexico: suburb of Tampico: pop. 160,000
- clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
- compartmented — Divided into compartments.
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- côtes-d'armor — a department of W France, on the N coast of Brittany. Capital: St Brieuc. Pop: 553 969 (2003 est). Area: 6878 sq km (2656 sq miles)
- counterdemand — a demand made in response to another demand
- countermanded — Simple past tense and past participle of countermand.